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[ale] FTP Recursion at Host
- Subject: [ale] FTP Recursion at Host
- From: mhw at wittsend.com (Michael H. Warfield)
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:35:00 -0500 (EST)
jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com enscribed thusly:
> >From Linux, when I FTP to a host, how do I "mget" a whole directory tree
> with the structure intact?
Some ftp servers allow for doing a "get foo.tar" where "foo" is
a directory and it then tars the results into one big tarball. Other
than that (and that is server dependent), I use "fmirror" to "mirror"
the directory from the remote site to mine...
> - Jeff
Mike
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