copying whole directories CLI ftp client

Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
how to get/put whole directories.
I want to stick with cli ftp clients.
Any suggestions


thank you

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:00:55 +0000, xtd8865 wrote:

> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
> how to get/put whole directories.
> I want to stick with cli ftp clients.

ncftp

get -R blah-blah
put -R blah-blah

On 2008-03-30, xtd8865 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
> how to get/put whole directories.
> I want to stick with cli ftp clients.
> Any suggestions
>
wget is a client for ftp or http.

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:38:42 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:00:55 +0000, xtd8865 wrote:
>
>> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
>> how to get/put whole directories.
>> I want to stick with cli ftp clients.
>
> ncftp
>
> get -R blah-blah
> put -R blah-blah

sftp: put * / get *

Jonesy

Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 2008-03-30, xtd8865 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
>> how to get/put whole directories.
>> I want to stick with cli ftp clients.
>> Any suggestions
>>
> wget is a client for ftp or http.
>
not really
wget (web get) understands ftp and http
but it isn't a true ftp client (can you PUT files with wget ?)

xtd8865 wrote:
> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
> how to get/put whole directories.
> I want to stick with cli ftp clients.
> Any suggestions
>
>
> thank you

With LFTP, trying using the 'mirror' command instead of 'get'

>> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
>> how to get/put whole directories.
>> I want to stick with cli ftp clients.
>> Any suggestions

Not sure what the final goal is, but a lot of people don't
know that most FTP servers will automatically create a tar
file for you of a directory, .e.g. On windows xp I can open
a command prompt, use their command line ftp to login to
our RHEL 4 server, switch to binary transfer and then
type: get junk_dir.tar -- it will download a single tar
file to you containing the contents of junk_dir on the server.

Hope this helps. There may be a way to 'reverse' the
process, but I don't know the command.
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John
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John Murtari wrote:

> Not sure what the final goal is, but a lot of people don't
> know that most FTP servers will automatically create a tar
> file for you of a directory, .e.g. On windows xp I can open
> a command prompt, use their command line ftp to login to
> our RHEL 4 server, switch to binary transfer and then
> type: get junk_dir.tar -- it will download a single tar
> file to you containing the contents of junk_dir on the server.
>
> Hope this helps. There may be a way to 'reverse' the
> process, but I don't know the command.

Didn't know that, but also, did not get it to work.
Tried it on ProFTPD, PureFTP and FTPD. (not my installs, but servers I
have FTP logins on, so it's either turned off or unsupported).

On 2008-04-04, Jurgen Haan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> John Murtari wrote:
>
>> Not sure what the final goal is, but a lot of people don't
>> know that most FTP servers will automatically create a tar
>> file for you of a directory, .e.g. On windows xp I can open
>> a command prompt, use their command line ftp to login to
>> our RHEL 4 server, switch to binary transfer and then
>> type: get junk_dir.tar -- it will download a single tar
>> file to you containing the contents of junk_dir on the server.
>>
>> Hope this helps. There may be a way to 'reverse' the
>> process, but I don't know the command.
>
> Didn't know that, but also, did not get it to work.
> Tried it on ProFTPD, PureFTP and FTPD. (not my installs, but servers I
> have FTP logins on, so it's either turned off or unsupported).

It might be that if the ftp server runs chrooted, it need to see a
"/bin/tar".

xtd8865 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi I've tried lftp, ncftp and can't seem to find out
> how to get/put whole directories.

ncftp usually brings ncftpget and ncftpput along. see the man page for
-R.

Cheers