[CLUE-Tech] FTPing many files

[Jeremiah Stanley]

> 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.)

Some great utilities I have used are wget and curl. Both of the use the
syntax that a browser would use:

curl ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/wu-ftpd-1.3-4.i386.rpm

JStanley