Ftp – How to write a terminal command to download a folder with wget from a Media Temple (gs) server

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I'm trying to download a folder using wget on the Terminal (I'm usin a Mac if that matters) because my ftp client sucks and keeps timing out. It doesn't stay connected for long. So I was wondering if I could use wget to connect via ftp protocol to the server to download the directory in question. I have searched around in the internet for this and have attempted to write the command but it keeps failing. So assuming the following:

ftp username is: serveradmin@mydomain.ca
ftp host is: ftp.s12345.gridserver.com
ftp password is: somepassword

I have tried to write the command in the following ways:

wget -r ftp://serveradmin@mydomain.ca:somepassword@s12345.gridserver.com/path/to/desired/folder/

wget -r ftp://serveradmin:somepassword@s12345.gridserver.com/path/to/desired/folder/

When I try the first way I get this error: 

 Bad port number.

When I try the second way I get a little further but I get this error:

Resolving s12345.gridserver.com... 71.46.226.79
Connecting to s12345.gridserver.com|71.46.226.79|:21... connected.
Logging in as serveradmin ... 
Login incorrect.

What could I be doing wrong?

Best Answer

So you are running a wget command, but can not issue wget -h? :)

FTP options:
       --ftp-user=USER         set ftp user to USER.
       --ftp-password=PASS     set ftp password to PASS.

So your command becomes

wget -r --ftp-user="serveradmin@mydomain.ca" --ftp-password=somepassword ftp://s12345.gridserver.com/path/to/desired/folder/

You most likely will have to put " " around the username because it contains @ character

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