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From: Eugene Hercun <eugene.hercun@gmail.com>
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Subject: downloading entire directories
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I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've
read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to
downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to
use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The
problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server.
The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I
would prefer to use ftp.
Thank you.
This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day,
download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not
download the same items again the next day.

Eugene