Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:09:53 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from local network FTP server Message-ID: <20020203200952.A24428@tharmas.rintrah.org> In-Reply-To: <94584.1012778121@monkeys.com>; from rfg@monkeys.com on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:15:21PM -0800 References: <1012777172.247.5.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> <94584.1012778121@monkeys.com>
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:15:21PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> In message <1012777172.247.5.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh>, you wrote:
>
> >All you have to do is download the entire
> >'/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE' directory from your favorite
> >FreeBSD FTP Mirror, and put it under (example, replace with anything
> >appropriate) /usr/local/FreeBSD.
>
> OK, call me ignorant, but I just _do not_ know how to do the equivalent
> of an `rcp -r' (recursive remote copy) that gets all of the files,
> all of the directories, and all of the sub-sub-sub-directories, starting
> from a given point on some remote FTP server. (Soory if this is a
> dumb question. I don't actually use FTP all that much.)
>
> Can you tell me how to do that (recursive get) using FTP? Will the FTP
> `mget' command do it for me?
>
Try 'wget' in ports. 'wget -m' should do it for you.
--devin
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