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From: ziegast@eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Non-interactive ftp
Message-ID: <1991May15.005136.20447@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 00:51:36 GMT
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Reply-To: ziegast@eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast)
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Here's a good project for someone to try if it hasn't been done
already...

Don't you wish there was an anonymous rcp protocol?  Tonight I just
downloadd the InterViews distribution from stanford using ftp.
They put alot of stuff in sub-directories especially things like
compiled code.  It would have been easier for me if I could just

	anon-rcp -r interviews.stanford.edu:dist /software/interviews

Instead I spent lots of time using mkdirs, cd's, lcd's, mgets , etc.
to get all of it's subdirectories transferred to my machine.

Do you suppose someone could create a program to sign on as ftp and
recursively go through some specified directory and transfer the
whole thing in one non-interactive command?

I've seen some feeds about a chat2.pl (?) that could help do such
non-interactive things and I wonder if anyone has thought about doing
this.  The only alternative is an extension to the ftp protocol to
allow recursive transfers.

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