Hmmm.... could you possibly try rsync? Also, I believe that ncftp has a recursive (-R) option in it that would allow you to download all of the files in a given directory structure. I'm not sure if thats what your looking for.
HTH, -- Jonathan On Fri, May 20, 2005 5:10 pm, Eugene Hercun said: > I was wondering if ftp is able to download entire directories. I've > read through the man page and didn't really find anything specific to > downloading a selected directory. There was a note however, saying to > use tar to tar a directory and then download that tar file. The > problem is I do not have remote access to this particular ftp server. > The only alternative that I could think of using is wget. Although I > would prefer to use ftp. > Thank you. > This is for a perl script to basically check an ftp server every day, > download what's new, and add the new items to a database to not > download the same items again the next day. > > Eugene > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
