Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 02:04:50 +0800 (SGT) From: chas <panda@peace.com.my> To: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp a whole tree? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980218022721.00946d00@peace.com.my>
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I used to use mget (in non-interactive mode) to ftp a directory and its contents but it required having the subdirectory structure in place (a pain in the butt). Nowadays I just tar the directory and ftp the tarball. It's much faster and more reliable. on the source machine : tar cvf mytarball.tar myparentdirectory ftp from one machine to the other : ftp the tarball (mytarball.tar) to the other machine on the destination machine : then tar -xvf mytar.tar on the destination machine. nice b/c it preserves the ownerships on files etc. apologies if you already knew all this. of course, if you only have ftp access then mget is the only way. chas > >> Is it possible using mget to ftp a whole tree? >> > >if you have the same tree in the local directory. > >With ncftp you can get all directory structure. > >> -Mike >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >-- > > @= > //RSSH mailto:Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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