FTP dir ?

[Vlad_11]

Hi,
Can I FTP the whole dir instead of separate files. Or I can just zip the whole dir and ftp .zip.
I need to transfer the whole dir into onother box.

Thanks
V

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

The mget (or mput) ftp command is your boy.
e.g.

cd /xxx/yyy
prompt # toggle y/n questions for each file off
mget *

That will get all the files on the remotehost under directory /xxx/yyy.

[Steven E. Protter]

You can go either way.

The disadvantage of zipping it up is need shell access at the receiving end to unzip.

What I like to do is exhange public keys and use password free scp to tranfer directories.

scp -rp /dir hostname:/target_dir

Works very well and can be password free with openssh/secure shell.

SEP

[Vlad_11]

Clay,
Thansk, will cd xxx/yyy will work if I need transfer to onother host/IP ?

Thanks to all

V

[A. Clay Stephenson]

In that case your ftp commands after the ftp login would be:

lcd /local/srcdir # local cd for source directoty
cd /remote/destdir # remote cd for destination directory
prompt # turn of y/n prompts
mput *
quit