Use a different tool :)

go to the /var/www/ dir on the one machine and issue this command:

wget --glob=on -r ftp://username:password@thenameoftheftpserver/your/dir/*

you can do lots of nifty things with wget look at the manpage for more 
details.  I think you will find it is much more suited for this thing than 
an ftp client.

-derek

 On Fri, 14 Dec 101, Charlie Bullen wrote:

> Good Morning, I need to copy several directories complete with all 
> files they contain from one computer to another using ftp. The location 
> of the directories on computer 1 is /var/www with several subdirectories. 
> Many of the subdirectories also have subdirectories and all contain 
> multiple files. I want the stucture on computer 2 to be the same as on 
> computer 1.
> 
> I establish an ftp connection from computer 2 to computer 1 and make the 
> following entry:
> 
> mget /var/www/* /var/www
> 
> It seems to start the transfer and asks me if I want to transfer each 
> file. I answered y. I then closed the session and got the following response:
> 
> ftp> exit
> 221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
> 221-Total traffic for this session was 244 bytes in 0 transfers.
> 221-Thank you for using the FTP service on webserver1.
> 221 Goodbye.
> 
> to be sure I went to /var/www on computer 2 and sure enough nothing was 
> there. Any Ideas?
> 
> I could get in my car and drive over to the site where all these files 
> reside on a win 98 box and ftp them from there to computer 2, but since I 
> can ssh into computer 2 from home it seems like there mst be a way to do 
> it remotley. 
> 
> Sad to say all of my ftp expierience has been using a windows client to 
> ftp to a linux or unix box, no command line expierience.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Charlie
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