{"id":1249,"date":"2012-04-10T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T08:44:13","slug":"recursive-get-from-an-ftp-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/recursive-get-from-an-ftp-server\/","title":{"rendered":"recursive get from an FTP server"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we all know, downloading a directory from an FTP server over FTP over the command line is not possible. Some, have found mget to be the holy grail, I certainly do not.<\/p>\n

I was restoring my music backup from my NAS, and I didn’t want to do it the GUI way, so CLI is the other, obvious option.<\/p>\n

Trying to do a recursive fetch using the FTP prompt, did not work whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Here is the better solution: recursive wget.<\/em><\/p>\n


<\/br>\n$ wget -r -l 0 ftp:\/\/user:password@server\/directory
<\/br>\n<\/pre>\n
wget will now recursively fetch that entire directory. <\/p>\n
Note: In some cases, you would need to pass the –username and –password arguments to wget.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As we all know, downloading a directory from an FTP server over FTP over the command line is not possible. Some, have found mget to be the holy grail, I certainly do not. I was restoring my music backup from my NAS, and I didn’t want to do it the GUI way, so CLI is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,10],"tags":[338,344,334,339,340,336,337,341,343,335,342],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-linux","tag-directory","tag-download-directory-ftp","tag-ftp","tag-ftp-mget","tag-ftp-recursive","tag-get","tag-mget","tag-recursive","tag-recursive-get-ftp","tag-wget","tag-wget-ftp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t