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From: "Andy [TECC NOPS]" <andy@tecc.co.uk>
To: <darryl@osborne-ind.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: ftp question
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:46:37 -0000
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Add the package "wget" and then read the man
page. You want somet like this :-

%wget ftp://username@password@ftp.blahblah.com/*

works a treat.

Regards
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Darryl Hoar
> Sent: 08 March 2001 17:38
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: ftp question
>
>
> 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
>
>
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