Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:41:37 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de Subject: Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools? Message-ID: <49D48851.8000901@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200904011702.n31H2xZI071651@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200904011702.n31H2xZI071651@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > I run into a problem I can not solve. I need to fetch a whole directory > > tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and its > > subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, > > but fetch does only retrieve data on file basis and does not copy a > > whole directory tree recursively. The remote site does not offer > > sftp/sshd for that purpose. > > > > Is there a simple way to perform such a task with FreeBSD's own tools (I > > try to avoid installing 'wget' and sibblings)? I need to keep it simple, > > task should be performed via cronjob. > > I'm afraid you can't do that with FreeBSD base tools. > > An alternative to wget would be "omi" (ports/ftp/omi) > which is a simple FTP mirroring tool, written in C > without any dependencies. Usage is simple: > > $ omi -s server.name.com -r /remote/dir -l ./local/dir > > Note that, by default, it tries to synchronize the local > dir perfectly, i.e. if the remote dir is empty, it will > wipe out the local dir. (The option "-P 0" will prevent > omi from removing anything.) > > Best regards > Oliver > Thanks for so much answers. I tried 'omi' but I find that the tool does not travers deeper into a dir than level one, so subdirs seem to be left out. I will try wget, although this tool would not be the first choice. Thanks, Oliver
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