ftp

[Matt Alexander]

Also, if you're using regular FTP and you don't want to answer "y" to
every mget response, type "prompt" before you type "mget" and this will
turn this off.
~M

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> ncftp has Recursive get. you proably already have it on your Linux box.
> type "man ncftp" and it will give you instructions.
>
> Carl P.
>
> 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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