Recursive FTP!

[Calum]

i got in shit for quoting before, so fuck it, you'll just have to click the link. Nevertheless this is VERY cool, i have been wondering how to do this for a while...

http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9174

i haven't used this yet, so i don't know how good it is et c.

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[voidmain]

Or he could have just done an "ncftpget -R".        Unless maybe that doesn't work with NT/IIS's ftp server but I think it does. But since they have higher access to both machines in the examples I would have opted for "scp -r" over ftp. But I digress.

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Yep, just tried it with Win2k's FTP server. "ncftpget -R <url>" and "wget -r <url>" both will recursively copy a directory from a Windows 2000 (and I assume NT) FTP server. I applaud the effort on the script though.    
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[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Calum]

so do you mean that the script is worthless in practice?

oh well, thanks for pointing out how to do it anyway, as i say i was wondering about that.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so do you mean that the script is worthless in practice?

oh well, thanks for pointing out how to do it anyway, as i say i was wondering about that.

Not all UNIX systems include ncftpget or wget. But you can install them on most UNIX systems, just like you can install that script. I didn't see either of those two commands mentioned so I have to assume that the author of the script didn't realize they existed. I wouldn't say the effort is wasted though because it's a good example of Korn shell programming, something people should learn.