Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:20:00 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp to transfer whole directory Message-ID: <200001111220.NAA22938@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <85f3ct$21la$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> How do I use ftp to transfer the whole directory?
> I man ftp but didn't find an answer!
Most ftp servers support getting a whole directory as tarfile
when you simply append ".tar" to the directory name:
get directory.tar
You can even "untar" the file locally in one step:
get directory.tar "|tar xf -
Regards
Oliver
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