[95355] in RedHat Linux List
Re: tar over ftp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cifreo)
Sat Oct 17 09:07:41 1998
From: Eric Cifreo <eric@kazan.com>
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 48409 06:41:53 -0500
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
>How do I get ftp (any client -- pretty sure I have every one ever
>written) to tar a complete directory and download the result? .tgz
>files would be even better, and judging by the /bin directories of
>several public ftp sites, it should be possible.
>
>--
>Michael Jinks
Hey Michael,
I think it's dependent on the ftp server, but I know that any
ftp site running ncftp will do it. Ftp.ou.edu comes to mind.
Once while downloading the 50 M or so of errata, by issuing
tar -czf [a-z]*.rpm
my modem connection dropped during the download of ncurses.
So I had to go back and say
tar -czf [n-z]*.rpm
tar -czf [A-Z]*.rpm
Pretty handy stuff.
Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX
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