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I'm trying to ftp a folder using the command line ftp client, but so far I've only been able to use 'get' to get individual files.
dotancohenAs you may know, using Foreach loop with configuring enumerator as file enumerator will not work on remote ftp folder. A work around can be this: copy all remote files to a local directory and then find file names which are old, and then in a foreach loop delete these files with ftp task.
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You could rely on wget which usually handles ftp get properly (at least in my own experience). For example:
You can also use -m which is suitable for mirroring. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf.
If you've some special characters in the credential details, you can specify the --user and --password arguments to get it to work. Example with custom login with specific characters:
EDITAs pointed out by @asmaier, watch out that even if -r is for recursion, it has a default max level of 5:
If you don't want to miss out subdirs, better use the mirroring option, -m:
Just to complement the answer given by Thibaut Barrère.
I used
Note the double slash after the server name. If I don't put an extra slash the path is relative to the home directory of user.
- -nH avoids the creation of a directory named after the server name
- -nc avoids creating a new file if it already exists on the destination (it is just skipped)
- --cut-dirs=5 allows me to take the content of /absolute/path/to/directory and to put it in the directory where I launch wget. The number 5 is used to filter out the 5 components of the path. The double slash means an extra component.
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If lftp is installed on your machine, use mirror dir. And you are done. See the comment by Ciro below if you want to recursively download a directory.
If you can use scp instead of ftp, the -r option will do this for you. I would check to see whether you can use a more modern file transfer mechanism than FTP.
Use WGet instead. It supports HTTP and FTP protocols.
Good Luck!
reference: http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_wget.htm
Jason StevensonJason StevensonThere is 'ncftp' which is available for installation in linux. This works on the FTP protocol and can be used to download files and folders recursively. works on linux. Has been used and is working fine for recursive folder/file transfer.
Check this link... http://www.ncftp.com/
If you can, I strongly suggest you tar and bzip (or gzip, whatever floats your boat) the directory on the remote machine—for a directory of any significant size, the bandwidth savings will probably be worth the time to zip/unzip.
If you want to stick to command line FTP, you should try NcFTP. Then you can use get -R to recursively get a folder. You will also get completion.
JazzJazzwget -r ftp://url
Work perfectly for Redhat and Ubuntu
You should not use ftp. Like telnet it is not using secure protocols, and passwords are transmitted in clear text. This makes it very easy for third parties to capture your username and password.
To copy remote directories remotely, these options are better:
rsyncis the best-suited tool if you can login viassh, because it copies only the differences, and can easily restart in the middle in case the connection breaks.ssh -ris the second-best option to recursively copy directory structures.
See:
rsync man page
ssh man page