downloading entire directories

[Tony Shadwick]

There are two ways you could do this.  The first is like so:

create the actually directory locally
ftp to the remote system

cd to the directory
Then type the following:

prompt
mget *

Now, that doesn't recurse. :\

The other way would be to do 'portinstall wget', then 'man wget'.

Tony

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Eugene Hercun wrote:

> 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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