From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 20 21:23:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C548516A4CE for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 21:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from photonix.site5.com (photonix.site5.com [209.59.179.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D32343D39 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 21:23:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-lists@slivko.org) Received: from slivko by photonix.site5.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DZExz-0007TL-4d; Fri, 20 May 2005 17:23:35 -0400 Received: from 128.59.26.166 ([128.59.26.166]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user freebsd-lists@slivko.org) by www.slivko.org with HTTP; Fri, 20 May 2005 17:23:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1217.128.59.26.166.1116624215.squirrel@www.slivko.org> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:23:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "Eugene Hercun" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - photonix.site5.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32065 32003] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - slivko.org X-Source: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php X-Source-Args: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src/compose.php X-Source-Dir: :/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downloading entire directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-lists@slivko.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 21:23:33 -0000 Hmmm.... could you possibly try rsync? Also, I believe that ncftp has a recursive (-R) option in it that would allow you to download all of the files in a given directory structure. I'm not sure if thats what your looking for. HTH, -- Jonathan On Fri, May 20, 2005 5:10 pm, Eugene Hercun said: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >