From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 14:29:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sparc.sweb.com (ip-150-253.gw.total-web.net [209.186.150.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3428114C9D; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zaph0d@sparc.sweb.com) Received: from localhost by sparc.sweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA13689; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:22:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:22:04 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Leif Neland Cc: Barry Irwin , Matthias Buelow , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fetch/wget/ftp: How to do a recursive ftp-get? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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