Leif Neland wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > This is where a useful tool like wget comes into play. Wget can be pretty > > much used as an automated replacement for fetch, or FTP URL retrieval. Can > > also be plugged into the whole ports system so that it can retrieve the > > ports data packages. > > But which tool can do a command-line, recursive ftp-get? wget can't, > because it does not create subdirs below the one specified, i.e. if I do > a wget -r ftp://webmaster:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/htdocs/tree, it will > create the dir webserver.my.dom/htdocs/tree, but not any subdomains to > that. /usr/ports/ftp/omi (was moved from /usr/ports/net a few weeks ago). omi -s webserver.my.dom -r /htdocs/tree -l /local/tree \ -u webmaster -e password Note that it is a bad idea to use real passwords in that way, because others can see them in the `ps` output. You can put the password in your ~/.omirc, for example (and make sure it has permissions 600). Teaching omi to accept URL syntax is on my to-do list. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
