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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Directory file transfer...help Post 4489 by ober5861 on Wednesday 25th of July 2001 08:12:44 AM
Old 07-25-2001
Using FTP, the mget command does not allow for retrieving entire directories under normal ftp servers/clients. You can retrieve multiple FILES, but not directories and the files contained in them. One option you may have is to tar all the files on the remote machine and ftp that file. I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe Ncftpd can do what you are trying to do. I personally don't know, but that program is slightly more advanced than simple ftp servers. You may want to check it out.

www.ncftp.com/ncftpd
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no    The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send
				     LIST  instead.  In  order	to  make  the  Solaris	ftp  client  send  LIST when the ls command is issued, set
				     FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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