On 5 May 2003, 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.)

The mget command can grab all files per directory.

But to recursively grab directories via ftp use a tool like lftp, Spegla,
or fmirror, or mirror (available in the pkgsrc/net category).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/