FTP file wildcards

[SystemDown]

Does anybody know any wildcards that can be used when executing a get or put command from a NT box to a HP Unix box? *.* and related wildcards didn't work from a command prompt on my NT box when I connected to the directory on my Unix box via, FTP.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[CaKiwi]

Use mget and mput instead of get and put. Use prompt to toggle prompting on and off.

CaKiwi

 

[SystemDown]

Thanks for the tip.

MGET/MPUT work great. Is there a syntax I can use so it'll FTP all files. Reason I ask is I want to incorporate this command in a batch file or script. I basically want the command to grab the contents of a directory or a group of files without know the files exact name.

Thanks!!!

 

[MikeLacey]

won't mget * do what you want? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[SystemDown]

MGET * works if I'm at the command line but, it prompts for a y/n response at every file in the target directory. I want to use this command in script/batch where it will run unattended on my NT box.

Any thoughts?

 

[CaKiwi]

Use the prompt command before mget to turn off prompting.

CaKiwi

 

[KenCunningham]

Alternatively, start ftp with ftp -i to turn off promting on startup, then use mput or mget.