FTP get directory

[quota]

I want to download a set of directories via ftp from my Linux server situated at other location. Is there any simplest and effective way to achieve this? Well I suppose open each subdirectory and with the help of get function download the files. But I forgot the steps to achieve this. Also is there some other option other than this?

[Zachary]

mget and mput functions are not meant for transferring entire set of directory. They can only sent one at a time. However you can achieve this if you can archive your files and then use mget function to retrieve the file from the server.

[Snake08]

You need to use mget function which allows you to send multiple files at a time.

Description

mget [multiple files and/or wildcards] - Expand wild cards in the list of remote files given as arguments and do a get for each file in the resulting list. The list of files should be separated by spaces.

Syntax

ftp> mget [filenames...]

Example

ftp> mget bipasha.gif

ftp> mget salary.doc employeedetail.doc

[Spyrus]

mget can get all the files within a directory if everything is set up properly. mget will not need permissions and/or access to get control and download the files. Just keep this in mind that the FTP get and mget commands will only work in the current directory. If you want to get files of some other directory, you need to use some other command like "ls" alongwith "cd" and then "get" or "mget" to retrieve the files.