[vox-tech] recursive ftp

[Mark K. Kim]

I think you can do it with ncftp and some scripting.  Normally, you can
use ncftp like a normal ftp, but you can also pass a recursive option (ie:
`mget -r *`).  You can write a script and pass appropriate commands, kind
of like this:

   #!/bin/sh
   ncftp -u <username> <ftp.servername.serverdomain> <<EOF
   <password>
   bin
   mget -r /
   quit
   EOF

Of course, you'll need ncftp installed, and make the script file
executable.  Be careful about your password being in the open.

-Mark

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ganesh  S wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a linux machine to which i would like to mirror a private ftp site on
> a nightly basis. A windows NT machine is serving as the ftp server. I tried
> tools like wget and rftp from my linux box to allow recursive ftp's from the
> windows NT machine, to occur automatically. rftp works only if the fttp
> server is a unix machine. With wget, iam unable to get it to work. I have
> the username and password setup in .netrc. The command i gave was wget -r
> ftp://<IPaddress>/
> Iam able to log in to the site with this but comes out with a message
> "Download 0 bytes in 0 files".
>
> Can anyone suggest/help me with a solution ?
>
> Thanks.
> Ganesh
>
>

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