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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
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Subject: Re: copying directories with ftp
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:25:22 +0300 (EET DST)
Cc: jebudas@plato.virgil.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <33E0495C.1091@barcode.co.il> from "Nadav Eiron" at Jul 31, 97 11:14:20 am
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Once Nadav Eiron wrote:
> 
> Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX wrote:
> > 
> > Hello and Thank you.
> > 
> > Is it possible to copy an entire directory when I use ftp?
> > 
> > I tried mput -r (like cp -r) but it didn't work.
> > 
> > Gratefully,
> > Brian WF Tobin
> 
> As many said before, with a properly configured server, you can get
> dir.tar.gz. However, for other cases, I find wget (in the ports) a very
> find tool (my main use for it is to mirror SNAPs locally...). It lets
> you download (with command line switches - it's not interactive)
> hierarchies of ftp or http files. A very powerful and reliable little
> tool IMHO.
> 
> Nadav
> 
Do you see what he asks? He asks is it possible to PUT (not get)
an entire directory?


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