[NTLUG:Discuss] ftp multiple files

terry linux at cowtown.net
Tue Jan 28 16:31:20 CST 2003


Fred James wrote:

>  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.


Okay, thanks.

>
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> 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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