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Date:      Mon, 23 May 2005 16:17:39 -0400
From:      DerDrache <derdrache@gmail.com>
To:        Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
Cc:        Eugene Hercun <eugene.hercun@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: downloading entire directories
Message-ID:  <59c289ef05052313175c8d33a5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050521224321.A47072@mail.goinet.com>
References:  <c04ca341050520141040bd0c27@mail.gmail.com> <20050521133758.T48232@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050521224321.A47072@mail.goinet.com>

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On 5/21/05, Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> wrote:
> scp -pr user@remote_host:/path/of/dir/you/want/ /path/you/want/it/stored
>=20
> Tony
>=20
> On Sat, 21 May 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote:
> >
> >> There are two ways you could do this.  The first is like so:
> >
> > I believe there may be a third way.
> > Have not done it in a while, but some FTP servers allow you to specify =
a tar
> > file from a directory.
> >
> > To be honest I don't recall syntax, but it was something like "get
> > dirname.tar" and the FTP server would know to prepare a tar of the enti=
re
> > directory. Don't know which server(s) suppor(ed) this feature though.
> >
> > Long run something like rsync or unison are better options though.
> > Although I think scp can download multiple files, but I don't know if i=
t
> > recurses.
> >
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>=20
At the risk of redundently sounding redundent, I think wget might be
up your alley.  Makes this a very simple operation.

wget -r ftp://user:password@host.com/path/to/folder

--=20
DerDrache



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