Subject: Re: ftp and tar annoyances
To: None <bsalai@tmonline.com>
From: Johnny Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/13/1997 16:26:02
On 13 Nov, Brad Salai wrote:
> As for ftp, mget is a nice idea, but it asks you to confirm that you still
> want each file as it comes up. This makes it impossible to just get a
> collection of files, either by matching a pattern, or listing the files,
> without sitting there.
If at the ftp prompt, you type "prompt off" before your mget command,
ftp won't ask you to confirm each file that you mget.
Cheers,
--
Johnny C. Lam
Department of Statistics lamj@stat.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
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