7 Responses to “5 bucks to a Dreamweaver or FTP client guru!”

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  Nick Prignano (Who am I?)
  December 30th, 2007 01:26

  Hey, you can easily download all files of certain types from a given directory using the Windows command-line and some basic ftp commands.

  here is a list of basic ftp commands:
  http://www.nsftools.com/tips/RawFTP.htm

  If you want more of an exact example something like this:

  1) Start > Run > type cmd and press enter(honestly not sure if this works in vista, but it does in XP, either way, open up a command prompt).

  2) Type ftp http://ftp.yourhost.com (replace http://ftp.yourhost.com with your actual ftp host, der).

  3) You will be prompted to login with your credentials, do so.

  4) Type cd /path/to/your/files

  5) Type mget *.php *.htm (etc,etc, for all file types you wish to retrieve).

  *NOTE* the files are retrieved to whichever directory you started in, usually your my documents folder in windows xp and later.

  It’s like candy.

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  admin (Who am I?)
  December 30th, 2007 04:12

  Ah… but what about subdirectories?

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  Nick Prignano (Who am I?)
  December 30th, 2007 15:15

  Well, you can do it the slow way with ftp by going to each subdirectory and running the same command - but that is not a feasible solution because each file from the subdirectory will be dumped in the same local folder, possible overwriting files with the same name that exist in other directories.

  The only real solution I see here, without invoking a third party utility (as there are some), would be to use the rcp command from the Windows command line..

  Here is a good reference for the rcp command:
  http://moka.ccr.jussieu.fr/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds4/rcp.htm

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  Nick Prignano (Who am I?)
  December 30th, 2007 15:18

  btw - your comment template sucks lol.

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  Nick Prignano (Who am I?)
  December 30th, 2007 15:31

  One more thing, you should check out the Subscribe to Comments plugin, to allow your readers to get a notification when someone replies to a thread that they have commented on.
  http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

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  Nick Prignano (Who am I?)
  December 30th, 2007 20:06

  Back to the question, like I said, you can do this (much easier) with a 3rd party app such as AutoFTP:
  http://www.primaftp.com/ftp_help/auto_ftp_service_download_using_wildcard.htm

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  whathuh studios rant | Exclude certain file types from FTP operations
  January 30th, 2008 23:52

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