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. http://www.gnu.org Assuming you have wget installed, use the following command which generates a lot of output on the screen:

% wget -m 'ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS'
--15:04:41--  ftp://emboss.open-bio.org:21/pub/EMBOSS
           => `emboss.open-bio.org/pub/.listing'
Connecting to emboss.open-bio.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

emboss.open-bio.org

has been created and EMBOSS can be found at

emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS

. You may wish to create a symbolic link to this from your

/packages

directory for convenience.