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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:15:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Ron Scott <ron@GeP18-5.NyirCaTv.BroadBand.hu>
To:        Ivan van der Merwe <Ivan@atio.co.za>
Cc:        "'freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com'" <freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ftp transfers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009281307480.13953-100000@gep18-5.nyircatv.broadband.hu>
In-Reply-To: <21EF5EE45919D111865200805FA61F8A0111DA54@mother.atio.co.za>

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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)



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