Yes. Thanks. This seems to be exactly what I need (though the path is
off :-).

$ wget -c -r ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:31, Fco. Valladolid wrote:
> 
> Try using:   wget
> 
> $ wget -c -r ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/1.6.1
> 
> The -c  indicate --continue--  and the -r indicate recurse into in this
> case, recurse into subdirectories in the netbsd ftp tree.
> 
> bye.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Thomas <ipthomas@mac.com>
> To: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 3:17 PM
> Subject: Re: ftp help
> 
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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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