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# 8  
Old 11-25-2002
do recursively download stuff why dont you use wget? ('wget -r <url>')
# 9  
Old 11-25-2002
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Originally posted by The Fridgerator
do recursively download stuff why dont you use wget? ('wget -r <url>')
Because I had never heard of wget. Smilie

Oh well, c'est la vie. Here are some docs on wget.
# 10  
Old 09-19-2003
Fantastic effort Perderabo

Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it a lot similar to rsync.?
# 11  
Old 09-19-2003
Remember the title of the thread...recursive ftp, not recursive copy. I wrote the first version of this when I was asked to sync a unix ftp server with an NT ftp server through two firewalls. That's quite a bit more than rsync can handle.

rsync depends on the berkeley remote shell command. That protocol is very insecure, perhaps the most insecure in existence. It always was unix specific and not that many unix shops still use it due to security. And I never seen a firewall configured to pass that protocol.

My script depends on the ftp protocol. Ftp won't win any awards for security either, but it does at least demand a password. Ftp is also widely available and I specificly included NT support.
# 12  
Old 09-20-2003
Quote:
Originally posted by Perderabo
rsync depends on the berkeley remote shell command. That protocol is very insecure, perhaps the most insecure in existence. It always was unix specific and not that many unix shops still use it due to security. And I never seen a firewall configured to pass that protocol.
This is I never knew - thanks for the lesson. Smilie
# 13  
Old 12-16-2003
# 14  
Old 02-08-2004
Howdy,

Nice script. I understand the overall flow of it, but not knowing all about the code I need some clarification.

What I need to know is how do you check that the path/destination exists? Which piece of code does this? I'm writing a similar script, however not quite as elaborate as this one, but this is a check that I'd like to do.

Any explanation would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Linden
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