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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:06:58 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using macros with FTP
Message-ID:  <20020424100658.Q56548@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020423195049.0095f990@pop.netzero.net>; from raiden23@netzero.net on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:55:57PM -0400
References:  <4.2.0.58.20020423195049.0095f990@pop.netzero.net>

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:55:57PM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote:
> 	Hi.  I was reading the man page on FTP and noticed that it offers a macro 
> option to automate the grabbing of certain files from an FTP site.  Now my 
> question is say I want to login to a site called "ftp.myftpsite.com" and 
> had to login using "myusername" and "mypassword".  Once I'm in I want to go 
> to the directory "/pub/ftp/files/myapp/" then down load 3 files in 
> there.  How would I properly setup the command line to execute the macro 
> and login to that site?

Please have a look at http://www.mavetju.org/unix/netrc.php

Edwin

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