How to recursively download a folder via FTP on Linux [closed]

Answer 1

ncftp -u <user> -p <pass> <server>
ncftp> mget directory

Answer 2

There is 'ncftp' which is available for installation in linux. This works on the FTP protocol and can be used to download files and folders recursively. works on linux. Has been used and is working fine for recursive folder/file transfer.

Check this link... http://www.ncftp.com/

Answer 3

If lftp is installed on your machine, use mirror dir. And you are done. See the comment by Ciro below if you want to recursively download a directory.

Answer 4

If you can use scp instead of ftp, the -r option will do this for you. I would check to see whether you can use a more modern file transfer mechanism than FTP.

Answer 5

If you can, I strongly suggest you tar and bzip (or gzip, whatever floats your boat) the directory on the remote machine—for a directory of any significant size, the bandwidth savings will probably be worth the time to zip/unzip.

Answer 6

toggle the prompt by PROMPT command.

Usage:

ftp>cd /to/directory    
ftp>prompt    
ftp>mget  *