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Old 11-19-2004
Downloading whole directory with FTP

Is it possible using FTP to download a whole directory and all subdirectories at once without having to go through every single file?
Thanks,
Tom
# 2  
Old 11-19-2004
check out mget.

Also, try searching for 'coprocess ftp' on this forum. Perderabo has posted examples of using ksh coprocesses to automate ftp.
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Old 11-19-2004
Data

erm, I did a search but I dont really understand any of that. Isnt there just a command to download a directory?
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Old 11-19-2004
No. Directory searching is not that simple.

mget * will get all of the files in the current directory.
you change remote directories with: cd

There is no way with any of the versions of ftp that I know to move an entire directory tree - or even get all of the files from a directory tree.

If you can log onto the remote machine, use the unix tar facility to pack up the whole directory into one giant file. Then ftp the one file to your local host. Next, use tar to unpack the files back into a directory.
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Old 11-19-2004
See this.
 
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