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WGET – FTP Download a directory recursively

Monday, October 26, 2009 0:09 No Comments

We often need to download a directory from a ftp server to a local computer. You can do this using wget and its -r parameter.  The command would be: wget -l 30 -r ftp://user:pass@host/some_directory/ -l  sets the level depth. default value is 5 layers. i put 30 to be sure wget gets the whole tree

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