[aclug-L] Re: ftp question

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michael Lindsey wrote:

> Can someone tell me how I can recursively get directories from command line
> ftp?  I know about mget for multiple files, but there is always that
> confirmation question.

Start ftp with the -i flag to avoid confirmations.  But better yet,
install ncftp... it's much better.  ncftp allows full wild-carding and
will grab multiple directories.  And it has file-name completion,
bookmarks, pagination of listings, various styles of progress meters, and
a whole bunch of other stuff.  I can't live without it. 

(Actually, I'm finding I can live without a bunch of stuff.  I just
started working for Boeing Unix Technical Services as an HP-UX admin.  
Yesterday I discovered that not only are emacs, bash, and less *not*
installed on any of the 200 HP servers in this group... they aren't
approved by the applications standard for this group of machines; I'm not
allowed to install them.  I have to live with plain-vanilla vi, ksh, and
more until I can get my preferred tools onto the application standard for
this group of machines.  At least I forced myself to use vi for six months
a few years ago so I'd know it when I needed it.  Needless to say, ncftp
isn't on the approved list either.) 

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Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Don't do dat, it hurts my wittle bwain.