how to download a folder from a ftp server ?

[Dave Cragg]

On 2 Sep 2005, at 00:21, Mark Smith wrote:

> put the path to the directory you want into a variable:
>
> put URL ("ftp:" & pathToYourRemoteDirectory) into fList
> --this puts a list of the files into variable fList
> -- each line in fList will look something like:
> --09-01-05  03:55PM               298694 myfile.doc
> -- where (in this case) word -1 of each line is the name of the  
> file or folder
>

Just a couple of small additions. Using "word 9" is probably safer  
than using "word -1" to get the name of the file. The reason is that  
additional data can appear after the file name, for example, if the  
file is a link to another file. Using word 9 assumes the ftp server  
is returning directory listings in standard Unix format (which is the  
case with most servers, even on Windows).

drwxr-x---   3 dave  staff   102 Mar 29  2003 liburltestaxx
-rwxr--r--   1 dave  staff   981 Apr  8  2002 urlconfig.mc

(If you know in advance the server you are dealing with, you should  
probably confirm the directory listing format before you make your  
script.)

To distinguish directories from files, check that char 1 in any line  
of the listing = "d".


Cheers
Dave