Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:22:04 -0400 (EDT) From: <zaph0d@sparc.sweb.com> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za>, Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetch/wget/ftp: How to do a recursive ftp-get? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991003172023.13679A-100000@sparc.sweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910031929240.10969-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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Personally, for recursive gets - I love yafc. It rocks. I also like the interface.. and I could be wrong but I believe it supports usage of the ftp:// directives. On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > > > > > BTW.. although risking to be off-topic by miles, I always liked the way > > > how NetBSD's ftp(1) (since 1.4 or so) implemented http and ftp URL > > > fetching and thus eliminated the need for a fetch(1) command. > > > Couldn't the FreeBSD ftp(1) be enhanced that way, [ObTopic, slime slime] > > > to use fetch(3) for that purpose? > > > > This is where a useful tool like wget comes into play. Wget can be pretty > > much used as an automated replacement for fetch, or FTP URL retrieval. Can > > also be plugged into the whole ports system so that it can retrieve the > > ports data packages. > > > > But which tool can do a command-line, recursive ftp-get? wget can't, > because it does not create subdirs below the one specified, i.e. if I do > a wget -r ftp://webmaster:password@webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, it will > create the dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to > that. > > Leif > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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