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I'm here, in my room, on a Windows XP box. The files I want are in the department, on a linux machine.
I've FTP'd in remotely, but I can't find a command which will get me all the files.
The files I need aren't all in the same directory.... there is a root folder called 'ProjectB', containing fifteen subfolders. Each of those subfolders in turn contains ten more subfolders, each of which contains six files with the extension .rec which I need. So you can see why I don't want to do this one folder at a time :)
The relevant commands we have available from FTP include recv, mget and get. (Of which, I think get and recv are exactly the same)
Now, I'm sure there is some way to recursively get every file in every subdiretory with one command, but I can't figure out how.
I've tried
mget -R *.*
mget -R *.rec
(both from inside the root folder)
but this seems to attempt to recognise folders as files, and therefore doesn't look inside them. (I get 'mget [foldername]' at the prompt, and if I choose yes, I'm told it's not a plain file)
The get command on the other hand, seems not to recognise the -R option...
Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.
I've FTP'd in remotely, but I can't find a command which will get me all the files.
The files I need aren't all in the same directory.... there is a root folder called 'ProjectB', containing fifteen subfolders. Each of those subfolders in turn contains ten more subfolders, each of which contains six files with the extension .rec which I need. So you can see why I don't want to do this one folder at a time :)
The relevant commands we have available from FTP include recv, mget and get. (Of which, I think get and recv are exactly the same)
Now, I'm sure there is some way to recursively get every file in every subdiretory with one command, but I can't figure out how.
I've tried
mget -R *.*
mget -R *.rec
(both from inside the root folder)
but this seems to attempt to recognise folders as files, and therefore doesn't look inside them. (I get 'mget [foldername]' at the prompt, and if I choose yes, I'm told it's not a plain file)
The get command on the other hand, seems not to recognise the -R option...
Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.
think there is sometimes a problem with it trying to get binary files or ascii files so depending what the files are you might need to type
ascii or binary to change it to the right format.
then mget *.rec should recieve all the .rec files in the directory.
Although some might not allow the use of the wildcard character * so you will just have to type each file individually which I think nobody would really like to do. Far better to go for the 10 minute walk into uni :0)
Good luck anyway...
ascii or binary to change it to the right format.
then mget *.rec should recieve all the .rec files in the directory.
Although some might not allow the use of the wildcard character * so you will just have to type each file individually which I think nobody would really like to do. Far better to go for the 10 minute walk into uni :0)
Good luck anyway...
I think if you type "help", it gives you a list of commands.
Have you tried using the "copy" function and doing it individually?
Have you tried using the "copy" function and doing it individually?
Yup. I've also considered not being a lazy git, and walking the ten minutes into the department, but I'd still like to know how to get the command working :)
Have you not considered using a GUI ftp client such as smartftp, which supports drag and drop?
I'm here, in my room, on a Windows XP box. The files I want are in the department, on a linux machine.
I've FTP'd in remotely, but I can't find a command which will get me all the files.
The files I need aren't all in the same directory.... there is a root folder called 'ProjectB', containing fifteen subfolders. Each of those subfolders in turn contains ten more subfolders, each of which contains six files with the extension .rec which I need. So you can see why I don't want to do this one folder at a time :)
The relevant commands we have available from FTP include recv, mget and get. (Of which, I think get and recv are exactly the same)
Now, I'm sure there is some way to recursively get every file in every subdiretory with one command, but I can't figure out how.
I've tried
mget -R *.*
mget -R *.rec
(both from inside the root folder)
but this seems to attempt to recognise folders as files, and therefore doesn't look inside them. (I get 'mget [foldername]' at the prompt, and if I choose yes, I'm told it's not a plain file)
The get command on the other hand, seems not to recognise the -R option...
Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.
I've FTP'd in remotely, but I can't find a command which will get me all the files.
The files I need aren't all in the same directory.... there is a root folder called 'ProjectB', containing fifteen subfolders. Each of those subfolders in turn contains ten more subfolders, each of which contains six files with the extension .rec which I need. So you can see why I don't want to do this one folder at a time :)
The relevant commands we have available from FTP include recv, mget and get. (Of which, I think get and recv are exactly the same)
Now, I'm sure there is some way to recursively get every file in every subdiretory with one command, but I can't figure out how.
I've tried
mget -R *.*
mget -R *.rec
(both from inside the root folder)
but this seems to attempt to recognise folders as files, and therefore doesn't look inside them. (I get 'mget [foldername]' at the prompt, and if I choose yes, I'm told it's not a plain file)
The get command on the other hand, seems not to recognise the -R option...
Anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.