Re: bash scripting: automatically download via ftp

Tony Nugent wrote:
> 
> On Sat Mar 22 2003 at 20:08, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > How can I write a bash script that connect to a ftp
> > server, enter username and password( hardcoded in the
> > script), cd to /some/dir and get some files?
> 
> You run ftp with an ~/.netrc file that has an entry for the ftp
> server you want to connect to.

What about using wget? Man wget will tell you the whole
story, but it's basically wget URL.

Andrew