FTP question in Terminal

I am new to the command line so I appologize if this is a silly question.
I just wanted to know once you have logged onto an ftp server and navigated to the directory you want to "put" a file into, how to find out what your location on the local machine is. I assume that I start at my root which is why I can navigate to my desktop using "lcd Desktop". But how can I see what is on my desktop? I guess I am asking for a way to do a local ls command.
Thanks!

Are you saying "! ls"? Nothing happened when I tried that.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ! ls
ftp>
*edit
Now it gives me this
ftp> ! ls
Applications Library Pictures SME
Desktop Movies Pictures.sit Sites
Documents Music Public Unnamed Site 1
lol why does it work now and not before?

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