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 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqtyx-k9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1685,"url":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/compile-less-on-the-fly-for-your-exploded-war-in-intellij\/","url_meta":{"origin":1249,"position":0},"title":"Compile LESS on the fly for your exploded WAR in IntelliJ","author":"Jude Pereira","date":"February 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"At CleverTap, we've recently started using LESS for dynamic CSS. While it has it's upsides, the biggest downside\u00a0was that most of our developers couldn't use the hot deploy feature for their local deployments. After an hour or so, we came up with a neat solution. \u00a0 There are two parts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "another snippet | code"","block_context":{"text":"another snippet | code","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/category\/code\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"External Tool configuration for compiling LESS files before deployment","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-01.32.45-1024x494.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-01.32.45-1024x494.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-01.32.45-1024x494.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":694,"url":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/visual-basic-6-revisited-linux-wine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1249,"position":1},"title":"visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine","author":"Jude Pereira","date":"August 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this year, I had written an article on running Visual Basic 6 on linux under wine, this is an update for it, the prior one is deprecated Getting Visual Basic 6 to work on linux is pretty easy, not much trouble, all the basic things work, as of what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "another snippet | code"","block_context":{"text":"another snippet | code","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/category\/code\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/br>\n$ wget -r -l 0 ftp:\/\/user:password@server\/directory
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