From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 4:17:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Received: from gep18-5.nyircatv.broadband.hu (gep18-5.nyircatv.broadband.hu [195.184.160.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BC837B423 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:17:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from witch@localhost) by gep18-5.nyircatv.broadband.hu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8SBFZf14114; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:15:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from witch) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:15:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Ron Scott Reply-To: Ron Scott To: Ivan van der Merwe Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com'" Subject: Re: ftp transfers In-Reply-To: <21EF5EE45919D111865200805FA61F8A0111DA54@mother.atio.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Ivan van der Merwe wrote: > Hi > > I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put > this in the crontab if possible. > In windows you can specify a file containing > all the files that you want downloaded. > > Can I do the same on Unix > Sure, try wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget). Put all URLs in a text file one/line and execute wget, i.e. wget -i inputfile ftp://.... See wget -h for more useful options. Cheers, -Ron -- UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things. (Doug Gwyn) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message