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From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>,
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Subject: Re: Automating multiple file transfers with FTP
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:44:38 +0100
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On Friday 21 December 2001 4:32 pm, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Any hints on how I can automate multiple file transfers with FTP
> using a valid user/password?
>
> The FTP man page talks about "AUTO-FETCHING FILES", but I couldn't get
> that to work for multiple files. I tried the "ftp
> ftp://user:password@host/file" format and that worked only for single
> files. I tried putting different files at the end, but only the file right
> after the host worked :
> "host/<this one worked>"
>
> I did get the following to work:
> ftp ftp://user:password@host/directory <ftp.script
>
> Having ftp.script with something like:
> ascii
> prompt
> mget *.txt
>
> Is this the only/best way to do this?
>

I like lftp

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