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Date:      Sun, 3 Oct 1999 19:34:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za>
Cc:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Fetch/wget/ftp: How to do a recursive ftp-get?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910031929240.10969-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991003074934.C47240@rucus.ru.ac.za>

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> > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way
> > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL
> > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command.
> > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime]
> > to use fetch(3) for that purpose?
> 
> This is where a useful tool like wget comes into play.  Wget can be pretty
> much used as an automated replacement for fetch, or FTP URL retrieval.  Can
> also be plugged into the whole ports system so that it can retrieve the
> ports data packages.
> 

But which tool can do a command-line, recursive ftp-get? wget can't,
because it does not create subdirs below the one specified, i.e. if I do
a wget -r ftp://webmaster:password@webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, it will
create the dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to
that.

Leif




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