[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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