From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 00:06:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA17944 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA17920 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA10574; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:06:46 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199608060706.AAA10574@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: how to I ftp a directory tree? To: root@140.142.178.53 (Ken Marsh) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 00:06:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ken Marsh" at Aug 5, 96 11:12:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I know that tar must be used with ftp to get a port, for instance. > > What is the syntax for such a command? Assuming the server (on the other end) supports it, get directoryname.tar will tar the contents of "directory" and send them to you. Typically, you would use get directory.tar.gz to cause the resulting tarball to be gzip-ed before being sent. --don