Subject: Re: ftp help
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Thomas <ipthomas@mac.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/05/2003 16:17:13
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On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 04:02 PM, L. S. wrote:
> Is it possible to get entire directories of files and subdirectiories
> via ftp? Any ftp command, flags, etc.? I want to download 1.6.1 via
> ftp without going directory by directory, file by file. (Locally, I
> use
> just scp for machine to machine transfers, which does what I need.)
You should be able to do this in the sets directory
mget *.tgz
Also turn off the interactive prompt before you do this so you don't
get asked to confirm each time.
prompt
This is all of course, at the ftp prompt. Do a '?' to get a list of
all the other commands in ftp.
Ian P. Thomas
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