Need a way to download * (wildcard) via ftp in a script

Forum thread started by Dane on Wed, 2012-11-07 17:43

Here's a real need of mine, and I haven't figured out how to do it on my own.

Is there ANY way to do a wildcard download via FTP from the command line? I've looked at ncftpget and wget and neither seems to have anything that works for me. Example of what I need:

Log into X IP address
using username Y and password Z
and download * (all)

Thanks,

Dane

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Comments

Re: Need a way to download * (wildcard) via ftp in a script

by bbjimmy - 2012-11-07 19:49 
wget --http-user=Y --http-password=Z http://X/ -r

This asumes that the server shows a directory listing when you use the IP address in a web browser.

Re: Need a way to download * (wildcard) via ftp in a script

by PulkoMandy - 2012-11-08 12:41

See some examples here :
http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/ftp/ftp_script_linux.htm

The idea is to use the FTP command, and give it some script on the standard input. This particular example does an mput (sends file to the server). You'll want the mget command instead to get multiple files. The script should be pretty similar.

Re: Need a way to download * (wildcard) via ftp in a script

by phoudoin - 2012-11-09 17:57

Try this:

wget -r ftp://user:password@server/some/path