FTP using WGET

The program WGET can be used to download a remote directory noninteractively. More details on WGET can be obtained from the Free Software Foundation. Assuming you have WGET installed, use the following command which generates a lot of output on the screen:

% wget -m 'ftp://ftp.uk.embnet.org/pub/EMBOSS'
--15:04:41--  ftp://ftp.uk.embnet.org:21/pub/EMBOSS
           => `ftp.uk.embnet.org/pub/.listing'
Connecting to ftp.uk.embnet.org:21... connected!
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD pub ... done.
==> PORT ... done.    ==> LIST ... done.

...
many pages truncated
...

FINISHED --15:04:55--
Downloaded: 2,657,366 bytes in 4 files

A new directory ftp.uk.embnet.org has been created and EMBOSS can be found at ftp.uk.embnet.org/pub/EMBOSS. You may wish to create a symbolic link to this from your /packages directory for convenience.