Today Ivan van der Merwe wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put
> this in the crontab if possible.
> In windows you can specify a file containing
> all the files that you want downloaded.
>
> Can I do the same on Unix
>
Sure, try wget (/usr/ports/ftp/wget).
Put all URLs in a text file one/line and execute wget,
i.e. wget -i inputfile ftp://....
See wget -h for more useful options.
Cheers,
-Ron
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