Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:32:42 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp a whole tree? Message-ID: <34EA9CAA.3686@barcode.co.il> References: <3.0.32.19980218022721.00946d00@peace.com.my>
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chas wrote: > > 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 Take a look at wget in the ports collection. Lets you grab complete hierarchies of http/ftp stuff... > > > [snip] Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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