Using ftp with mget doesn't work. It just gets the current directory.
Using ncftp with mget doesn't work. It complains:
ncftp / > mget public_html
get public_html: server said: I can only retrieve regular files
I tried the following wget command but it just quits after retrieving the files in the root directory:
wget --no-clobber --continue --user=USERNAME --password=PASSWORD ftp://somedomain.zzz/*
On my local machine I use a graphical ftp client called SecureFX which can pull down a directory tree. It does it by simply doing a different get for every file. Is there a linux command line client which will do the same thing?
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this is not entirely true, you can use rcp or scp (which does provide recursively) scp wants although a secure shell server running, which is surely a good thing.
you may also do a telnet, zip (tar cfz mydir.tar.gz mydir) the directory and then copy with ftp but i dont advice it. this is any case better than mc and copy since what you transmit is compress
You need :
-r, --recursive specify recursive download
wget -r --no-clobber --continue --user=USERNAME --password=PASSWORD ftp://somedomain.zzz/*
ncftget -R ftp://ftp.mydomain.com source dest
http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp
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by: ravenplPosted on 2008-03-31 at 02:16:09ID: 21244047
You can't get whole directory with just one FTP command. The ftp protocol have no command for that.
wget can do it for You "-r" option stands for recursive
I use "mc" (midnight commander) built in ftp client, from mc subshell "cd ftp://ftp.something.somewh