Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:47:51 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Keith Spencer <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to ftp download a dir tree Message-ID: <20010928084751.B22389@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010928052107.27432.qmail@web12002.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:21:07PM %2B1000 References: <20010928052107.27432.qmail@web12002.mail.yahoo.com>
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> I can't recall the command to mget all including the directory tree. > I had to tar it but I cant recall. Quoting ftp(1), line 206-209: Note: mget and mput are not meant to transfer entire directo- ry subtrees of files. That can be done by transferring a tar(1) archive of the subtree (in binary mode). Some FTP daemons (WU comes to mind) allow tar'ing and/or gzip'ing directory trees on the fly. Or, you can build wget, or one of the many programs like it, and use that. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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