[NTLUG:Discuss] ftp multiple files

[terry]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:

>I'm surprised noone else has mentioned it. Use wget (check the man page)
>to save the directory list to a file, edit the file to the list of files
>you wish to download. Execute wget -i <filelist> &. Wget retrieves files
>in <filelist> in the background.
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I tried
wget -i *
but it's still interactive.  It asked if I wanted to download each file 
individually and I had to answer yes or no.  Is it that the -i option 
doesn't work on all systems?