Ubuntu – Download remote FTP directory

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How can I download a specified directory and all it's files from an FTP server (requiring username+password)?

My personal preference is filezilla.

You can install it from the repositories by typing sudo apt-get install filezilla.

It's quite stable and with plenty of features.

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Alternatively, if you want to download by using a shell FTP client (no GUI), you could try to use wget or ncftp.

Some examples:

ncftpget –R –v –u "username" <ftp_site> <local_dir> <remote_dir>, (where "R" = recursive, "v" = verbose)

wget -r ftp://username:password@<ftp_site>/

wget provides many options, i've used it many times myself and i think that you should really try it (read it's 'man page', it's worth it)

wget should work:

wget -r -l 0 ftp://username:password@some.host/some_dir/*

wget is tool for downloading files.

-r means recursive.
-l 0 for infinite recursion, because -r by default have recursion depth of 5.
some_dir/ is relative to user home dir. If you want absolute path add one more / after host name.

Maybe you have to use --user and --password arguments to get it to work on Ubuntu.(according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/113886/how-do-you-recursively-ftp-a-folder-in-linux)

Use following command to edit your cron job:

crontab -e

Then add following to the end of that:

0 0 * * * lftp -u username,password -e "your command;quit" ftp.site.com

Obviously you must install lftp package beforehand.