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scp -pr user@remote_host:/path/of/dir/you/want/ /path/you/want/it/stored

Tony

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote:
>
>> There are two ways you could do this.  The first is like so:
>
> I believe there may be a third way.
> Have not done it in a while, but some FTP servers allow you to specify a tar 
> file from a directory.
>
> To be honest I don't recall syntax, but it was something like "get 
> dirname.tar" and the FTP server would know to prepare a tar of the entire 
> directory. Don't know which server(s) suppor(ed) this feature though.
>
> Long run something like rsync or unison are better options though.
> Although I think scp can download multiple files, but I don't know if it 
> recurses.
>