How to use a proxy at the UNIX prompt

As far as the executable you want to use is aware of this (standard) variable,

http_proxy=ht tp://xxxxxxxx:8080

export http_proxy

ftp_proxy=ht tp://xxxxxxxx:8080

export ftp_proxy

Note. please remove the space between "ht" and "tp".

Note. the HTTP protocol is used the for FTP proxy.

With csh/tcsh,

setenv http_proxy ht tp://proxysite.example.com:8080

setenv ftp_proxy ht tp://proxysite.example.com:8080

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