downloading entire directories

[Jonathan M. Slivko]

Hmmm.... could you possibly try rsync? Also, I believe that ncftp has a
recursive (-R) option in it that would allow you to download all of the
files in a given directory structure. I'm not sure if thats what your
looking for.

HTH,
-- Jonathan

On Fri, May 20, 2005 5:10 pm, Eugene Hercun said:
> I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've
> read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to
> downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to
> use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The
> problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server.
> The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I
> would prefer to use ftp.
> Thank you.
> This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day,
> download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not
> download the same items again the next day.
>
> Eugene
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