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Motivation Behind This Cheatsheet

Wanted to know how to easily download all files and folders recursivley from a host that only offers ftp access using only the command line

The Cheatsheet

If you have terminal/ssh access its easy to download remote file structures using a recursive scp command. But what about ftp from the command line? The ftp client native in the command line isn't able to recursivley get and send files, so its better to get it through wget. in the command line, use:

wget -m ftp://username:password@ip.of.host/path/to/directory

Further Discussion

in wget, the -m parameter is for mirror, the -r can only go 5 folders down a dir structure.

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