[NTLUG:Discuss] ftp multiple files

[Fred James]

  Do you not have access to a terminal connection to the site?  If you 
do, "ftp -i <site>" will open a "non interactive" session (i.e., "mget 
*" will get all files without asking for confrimations) - see "man ftp" 
for more details.

terry wrote:

> 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?
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