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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:15:06 -0500
From:      "Stephen Hilton" <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FTP Command
Message-ID:  <KPEMJADBBBFPDEDOIOMBAEILCNAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>

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> Using FTP command line, what are the commands to GET and PUT whole
> directories and subdirectories within...??? Nothing (obvious to me)
> in the 'man' covers this and I haven't run across it anywhere else
> yet.... thanks for any tips...!

I would install the ncftp3 port or package on your system for this kind of
task. I use ncftp3 quite a bit and am very pleased with its operation.

With ncftp installed and connected to the site you want to download a
sub-directory called "srcfiles" from:

ncftp> mget -R srcfiles

The -R argument tells the ncftp file transfer to act recursively

From the FreeBSD 4.3 FTP man page:
Note: mget and mput are not meant to transfer entire directory subtrees of
files.  That can be done by transferring a tar(1) archive of the subtree (in
binary mode).

Regards,

Stephen Hilton


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