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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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