FTP get all files

vibidoo · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 409

Is it possible from a prompt console to get all files from a FTP client connection ?

I mean , I have download more than 240 Mo of ebuilds file for my first Gentoo installation .
Now I am setting up a Gentoo on a new system , an I would like to use the ftp command to get all the packages and ebuilds files on my previous Gentoo installation . But I don't know the right option on ftp

brain · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 2:45 pm Post subject:

prompt off, mget * won't work?
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magnuson · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 20

"mget *" should do the trick in ftp but I don't think that will recursivly fetch directories. If that's what you want you need to get a more featureful ftp client. I *think* that lftp does that.

simcop2387 · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 6:35 pm Post subject:

why not just use wget? i've used it to do something very similar before, i forget the -'s to use but the man page explains it.