Copy an entire directory from a remote server?

[Cadwalader]

Hello again,

I need to copy an entire directory from a remote server. It's an Apache server, that is showing directories. Would I use grep? I've used that for individual files, but not for a dir, and when I just do #grep

http://URLHERE/dir/dir_I_want/

I get squat. The bash goes away like it's doing something, but even with -v, it doesn't do anything but look like it's doing something. I let this go on for about 15 minutes.


The stuff I am after is Linux server tutorials so that means soon I won't be bugging you good folks so much.

Hope I was of some help...
--OR--
Thanks for the help...
--Rich

 

[aixmurderer]

Why not try "find" instead, or even "ls".

e.g. find </your/initial/dirname> -d <your_cp_dirname> exec cp {} \;

Not sure how you want to copy from a URL though, that's new to me. IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
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[aixmurderer]

Correction to the above, hope I got it right this time:
find </your/initial/dirname> -type d <your_cp_dirname> exec cp {} \;
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[marsd]

Cadwalader..
For your problem:

http://curl.haxx.se/

 

[patel]

My choice is

#cd /source_dir
#find . | cpio -o | rsh remote_system &quot;cd /dest_dir ; cpio -idmuv&quot;

This will copy entire dir to remote system with recursion and preserves permission and ownership.

Patel

 

[fluid11]

If your servers are running OpenSSH, then you can try the 'scp' (secure copy) command.

scp -r root@host1:/some_dir /path_on_local_machine

ChrisP