From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 9:40:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schmoo.tclme.org (schmoo.tclme.org [208.24.53.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB1D37B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 80169 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2001 17:36:20 -0000 Received: from dinky.tclme.org (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.52.135) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 17:36:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3AA7C531.ED264B15@tclme.org> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:45:21 -0600 From: Bob Greene Organization: TclMe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp question References: <007801c0a7f6$7a41f430$0701a8c0@darryl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darryl Hoar wrote: > > Greetings, > I am trying to use ftp to get a directory and all its files/subdirectorys in > one > fell swoop. There are a few hundred files, so doing it one get at a time > isn't > going to fly. > > Can this be done from the command line ? I looked into ports but the search > didn't turn up much. This must be a common problem. > > (Do I have to tar it to an archive, then ftp the archive and decompress ?) > > thanks, > Darryl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Use ncftp (man ncftp) with recursion. -- Bob Greene rgreene@TclMe.org Pull my finger for my public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message