[NTLUG:Discuss] ftp multiple files

[terry]

Darin Smith wrote:

>Or, from an interactive ftp session, just do:
>prompt off
>then do your mget or mput.
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>--Darin
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Okay, yea, that works.

Actually just
prompt
does the trick,  but it has to be done after the ftp session is started.

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>On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:54, Fred James wrote:
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>>  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.
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>>terry wrote:
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>>>Bobby Wrenn wrote:
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>>>>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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>>-- 
>>find . -type f | xargs file | grep -i text | cut -f1 -d: | xargs grep "..."
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