# Net::Netrc 0.1.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-netrc-0-1-0/50359>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 15, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-netrc-0-1-0/50359 "2005-12-15T18:09:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![adistarmid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@adistarmid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adistarmid)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-netrc-0-1-0/50359/1 "2005-12-15T18:09:50Z")

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Net::Netrc is a pure Ruby module providing ftp(1)-compatible .netrc file  
parsing.

Available as a RubyGem:

gem install net-netrc

or via the project site at

[http://net-netrc.rubyforge.org](http://net-netrc.rubyforge.org)

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**Author:** ![adistarmid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@adistarmid](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adistarmid)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-netrc-0-1-0/50359/2 "2005-12-17T14:45:13Z")

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Bob S. wrote:

> Net::Netrc is a pure Ruby module providing ftp(1)-compatible .netrc file  
> parsing.

That’s great. I think that we need something like this in the stdlib  
even. However, implementation-wise  
[http://www.rubyist.net/~nobu/ruby/netrc.rb](http://www.rubyist.net/~nobu/ruby/netrc.rb) is a lot more Rubyish.  
(Also, Nobu’s solution only parses the file once, not once for every  
lookup.)

```
    nikolai

```