Author Topic: Recursive FTP!  (Read 654 times)

Calum

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« on: 25 November 2002, 18:19 »
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.

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« Reply #1 on: 25 November 2002, 18:45 »
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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« Reply #2 on: 25 November 2002, 19:13 »
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.
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« Reply #3 on: 25 November 2002, 19:51 »
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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.
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