Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:38:52 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools? Message-ID: <49d45d7c./wDEMGr6x3pE39QQ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <49D39153.4020707@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <49D39153.4020707@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site. > The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via > ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, but fetch does only retrieve > data on file basis and does not copy a whole directory tree > recursively. The remote site does not offer sftp/sshd for that > purpose. There's at least one ftp server (wuftpd) that will do it for you on the server end. All you have to do is "get {dirname}.tar". (The .tar file won't appear in the directory listing, because it's created on the fly.) It might be worth a try, to see if the server of interest happens to be set up this way.
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