Recursively get files from a FTP server

Last Updated on Friday, 30 January 2009 05:48 Written by Arvand Sabetian Friday, 30 January 2009 05:45

Since Arvixe offers free website transfer to all new clients, we often come across the dilema of moving large amounts of files recursively from a remote ftp server (the client’s old hosting provider). On linux machines, the command line ftp client doesn’t do a good job of providing a way to do this. The command mget does get files recursively but only those inside a specific directory.