[ale] Recursive FTP get from the command line..

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, F. Grant Robertson wrote:

> I'm trying to move some sites from one host to another machine..  Each has
> quite a few files, and I'd rather not kick off each one manually and wait
> for the next..
> 
> I've got 4 seperate FTP logins and I need to get all files from each
> account, into seperate directories and excluding some of the folders that
> are there (the host uses some stats package I need to discard.. )
> 
> I thought I could do this with wget, but reading over 'wget --help' output,
> I can't figure it out, and it doesn't look like it will do what I need..
> 
> Can anyone point me to a simple tool for this? Or, if I can do it with wget,
> can you give me some hints?

lftp can do this. Look at its mirror command....

later,
chris