[thelist] File transfer from/to Unix without FTP?

Matt Wenham matt at mattwenham.co.uk
Thu Oct 11 09:31:46 CDT 2001


> Most *nixes support wildcards. So to transfer everything in a
> directory, just use 'get/put *'. If you use 'ftp -i' to invoke ftp 
> then it won't prompt you at every file. Otherwise, you have to say 
> "yes" to every file in the directory - a real pain.

Don't you use mget/mput for multiple files??

You can also toggle the file confirmation by using the 'prompt' command.

Matt...




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