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From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
Subject: [unix-questions...] Re: FTP directories
Message-ID: <1991May9.011452.17857@ox.com>
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References: <3549@beguine.UUCP> <1991Apr29.203050.8621@athena.mit.edu> <2399@muffin.cme.nist.gov>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 01:14:52 GMT
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Archive-name: unix/shell/expect/1991-05-02
Archive: durer.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect.shar.Z [129.6.32.4]
Original-posting-by: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
Original-subject: Re: FTP directories
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <1991Apr29.203050.8621@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <3549@beguine.UUCP>, mpaf1216@med.unc.edu (Matthew Sean Pardo) writes:
>|> Is there a way to FTP a directory or subdirectory

>  No.  You can use "mget" to tell it to get multiple files in a directory, but
>there is no way to do recursive retrievals of a directory.

rftp (for "recursive ftp") is an expect script that ftps directories.
It comes with the expect distribution.  (Email "send pub/expect.shar.Z"
to library@cme.nist.gov or anonymous ftp same from durer.cme.nist.gov.)

Don Libes          libes@cme.nist.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes

-- comp.archives file verification
durer.cme.nist.gov
-rw-rw-r--  1 100      10         113509 May  1 14:24 /pub/expect.shar.Z
found expect ok
durer.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect.shar.Z