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Hi there
I am using ftp on debian to access the content of an ftp site. At the moment I can upload and download files but don't seem to be able to do the same with directory's. Any ideas?
Joe
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If it has such a feature. If you were to read a few pages about FTP you see your answer but you may want to skip to a solution. Try other FTP clients.
Bob
When I script I know what directories to traverse but you are repeating a discussion (how to do I FTP directories). I take it you google'd this and didn't like the answers?
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/internetworkers/2003-July/010296.html is the first hit on that question and notes some replacement ftp clients.
Does that help?
Bob
Are you really trying to get just one directory? Or are you really looking for a directory and all its contents recursively?
If it's the latter, take a look at GNU wget. You probably already have it. Here I am getting everything in directory /bar/baz except directory /bar/baz/junk from host foo.example.net.
wget -r -w 1 -np -H -o ftp-log -nv -X /bar/baz/junk -l 6 \
--ftp-user=me --ftp-password=seekrit ftp://foo.example.net/bar/baz
Read the manpage. It's worth it.
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