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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2005 14:10:41 -0700
From:      Eugene Hercun <eugene.hercun@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   downloading entire directories
Message-ID:  <c04ca341050520141040bd0c27@mail.gmail.com>

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I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've
read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to
downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to
use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The
problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server.
The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I
would prefer to use ftp.
Thank you.
This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day,
download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not
download the same items again the next day.

Eugene



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