From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 17:40:12 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 0F8C316A4CE for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 17:40:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6951C43D72 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 17:40:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4LHeApC018871; Sat, 21 May 2005 13:40:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 13:40:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Tony Shadwick In-Reply-To: <20050520165633.R11826@mail.goinet.com> Message-ID: <20050521133758.T48232@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20050520165633.R11826@mail.goinet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: Eugene Hercun cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downloading entire directories X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 17:40:12 -0000 On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote: > There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so: I believe there may be a third way. Have not done it in a while, but some FTP servers allow you to specify a tar file from a directory. To be honest I don't recall syntax, but it was something like "get dirname.tar" and the FTP server would know to prepare a tar of the entire directory. Don't know which server(s) suppor(ed) this feature though. Long run something like rsync or unison are better options though. Although I think scp can download multiple files, but I don't know if it recurses.