[CLUE-Tech] FTPing many files

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Kevin Cullis wrote:

> grant wrote:
> > 
> > Well, you can always use mget/mput to do a multiple get or put with
> > wildcards.  You can also script FTP by redirecting the input.
> 
> How would something like this go?

You should be able to get multiple files by connecting via
FTP and then typing something like 'mget *.deb' or 'mget *.rpm'
(I use that a lot grabbing files for SuSE...). If you're using
standard FTP you want to use something like 'ftp -i ftp.suse.com'
(the -i turns off interactive prompting so you don't have to
say "yes" to each file when you're downloading or uploading a 
lot of files.)

Take care,

Zonker
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