Recursive mget?

Original Message

Name: Jills
Date: January 11, 2004 at 21:26:41 Pacific
Subject: Recursive mget?
OS: Unix
CPU/Ram: unsure

Comment:

Hi,
I need to create a shell script that is able to copy all files and subdirectories of a specified directory into a UNIX box via ftp. mget only copies the files from the current directory.
Does anyone know of a command that is like a recursive mget to allow me to copy all sub-directories in a single command?
Any help will be appreciated!!
Thanks.

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Response Number 1

Name: Dlonra
Date: January 13, 2004 at 18:12:24 Pacific
Subject: Recursive mget?

Reply: (edit)

google
ftp client recursive unix

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Response Number 2

Name: cioran
Date: February 1, 2004 at 13:29:32 Pacific
Subject: Recursive mget?

Reply: (edit)

why don't you try to tar the directory first and then
get it via ftp with get?
tar xcvf tar_name.tar.gz directory_name
hope it helps!

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Response Number 3

Name: cioran
Date: February 1, 2004 at 13:33:29 Pacific
Subject: Recursive mget?

Reply: (edit)

sorry, typo error
tar cvfz tar_name.tar.gz directory_name
The z option only works if you have gzip installed.
You may need also to add the hyphen

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