From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 05:10:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA02933 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (root@cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA02926 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carbon.chalmers.com.au (carbon.cqit.qld.edu.au [203.22.80.5]) by mackay01.cqit.qld.edu.au (8.7.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA22711; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:03:38 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <33E07F47.8FD172C8@chalmers.com.au> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:04:24 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov CC: Nadav Eiron , jebudas@plato.virgil.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying directories with ftp X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199707311025.NAA18121@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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? > In case I missed the previous postings, start ftp with 'ftp -i',then do 'mput *' After first turning on 'binary' and 'hash' so you can see what's happening. bob > -- > Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank > +380-652-247 647 Simferopol, Crimea -- http://www.chalmers.com.au Books-New & Secondhand Support Whirled Peas. Agents for CIBTC. Associate of Amazon.com, and Partner Program with iBS. Books about China, books from China. Sheng huo jiu shi dou zheng Business Links in Dalian, and Beijing. Building the China Trade