Ftp – Get all files using FTP via Unix Terminal

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Using the FTP command in the Unix terminal I want to download all files / folders from my FTP server.

When I use this command:

ftp> mget *

I get lots of these errors:

ftp: Unable to determine real path of `subdomains': No such file or directory
Skipping non-relative filename `subdomains/dev'

Does anyone know how I can get all files and maintain the directory structure without getting the errors?

Thanks

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wget can mirror ftp sites as well. Here is an example on how to mirror Project Gutenberg Europe.

wget --mirror --no-host-directories --passive-ftp --no-parent --cut-dirs=4 \
     --output-file=/tmp/wget-gutenberg.log ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg

This:

date +%s

will return the number of seconds since the epoch.

This:

date +%s%N

returns the seconds and current nanoseconds.

So:

date +%s%N | cut -b1-13

will give you the number of milliseconds since the epoch - current seconds plus the left three of the nanoseconds.

and from MikeyB - echo $(($(date +%s%N)/1000000)) (dividing by 1000 only brings to microseconds)

FTP MGET – is there a limit to the how many files can be specified

MGET is not part of the FTP protocol, so the limit (if any) is dependent on your FTP client, which must implement MGET as a series of GET commands.

It looks like you may be using the built-in command line FTP client that ships with Windows, in which case I would not be at all surprised if it has the bug you describe--that's probably the worst FTP client I've ever used. I strongly suggest finding another FTP client--there are many available for Windows--even for the command line.

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