[SWLUG] FTP command line help

Toby Maxwell-Lyte toby.maxwelllyte at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 14:13:00 UTC 2010


On 1 November 2010 14:07, Neil Jones <neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a crippled server with no root access.
> I can log into it and I am using sftp to move files across to a new server.
>
> One of the sets of files I am moving has a bout 70 sub directories
> a simple Put command doesn't access any subdirectories.
> It just copies all the files from the current directory
>
> I would like it to recursively copy everything.
>
> Is there anyway to do this other than manually changing and creating
> directories?
>
> Neil
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wget could do it for you. A quick google found
wget -r ftp://username:password@domain.com/directory/



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