From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 12:56:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tyr.internal (node-d8e93fd2.powerinter.net [216.233.63.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C9DE37B4D7 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:56:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12143 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 20:58:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO tyr.internal) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 20:58:45 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:58:44 -0600 (CST) From: jmelesky@dynamictrade.com Subject: Re: ftp To: AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766D1E@exchange.panasonicfa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <20001030205623.5C9DE37B4D7@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man ftp: prompt Toggle interactive prompting. Interactive prompting occurs during multiple file transfers to allow the user to selec- tively retrieve or store files. So, 'prompt n' will work. Note, though, that 'mget *' does not properly recurse through directories. It isn't really designed for large-scale transfers. Check out wget for stuff like that. -johnnnnnnn > but can you tell me how can I download the whole directory via FTP (console) > on FreeBSD ? Without pressing Y to confirm on getting every single file. I > tried mget * , but it asks me for a confirmation for every single file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message