ftpcopy copies a FTP site recursivly. It afterwards deletes all
files in the local directory tree which were not found on the
remote site.
local-directory defaults to "." - the current working directory -
if the -n (--no-delete) option is used. local-directory
is not needed if the --interactive option is used.
Otherwise you must provide a local-directory argument.
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Number of tries to connect and log in. The default is 1, meaning that
ftpls will give up after the first error.
This option was added in version 0.3.0.
Send ACCOUNT as the account name using the ACCT ftp command if
the ftp servers asks for one.
ACCOUNT in ftp speak is some kind of sub account in some other
terminologies. If you don't understand what it means you have
a good chance to never need this option anyway. If you think you
need it please try the -u option first.
Use PASS as password to login on the ftp server.
The default is `anonymous@invalid.example'. Use an empty password
to enforce not sending any password.
Use NAME to login on the ftp server.
The default is `anonymous'. Use an empty name to force to not log in.
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Only create the directory hierarchie, do not download files.
Any file in the tree will be deleted unless the -n option
is also given. Note: if the -s option is also given
then even symbolic links to files will be created (without
the files, of course).
Download only files modified in the last NUMBER days.
Exclude files and directories matching WILDCARD (note that
this means shell style wildcards, not regular expression like
those of grep).
You can repeat this option as often as you want. You can
intermix it with the -i option.
See
below, for more information.
This option was added in version 0.3.0.
Include files and directories matching WILDCARD. You can repeat
this option as often as you want. You can intermix it with the
-x option.
See
below, for more information.
This option was added in version 0.3.0.
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This option tells ftpcopy to ignore any directories given on the
command line, and to read commands from the standard input. Each
command consists of two lines, the first being a directory on the
remote server, and the second a local directory.
ftpcopy will print an END-OF-COPY line after each operation.
This option was added in version 0.3.6.
this controls the amount of logging done:
0: nothing except warnings and error messages
1: downloads and deletes
2: links/symlinks created, files we already got
3: useless stuff
The default is 1.
Log transfer rates.
This option was added in version 0.3.9.
Add OPTS to LIST command.
This allows to pass arbitrary options to the
FTP servers LIST command. Note that ftpcopy does
not cope well with recursive directory listings.
This option was added in version 0.3.0.
Do not delete files. This influences the cleanup step, it doesn't
stop ftpcopy from deleting files during the downloads.
Do not copy or delete files: Only show what would be done.
This option was added in version 0.3.6.
Deal with symbolic links. This is only useful to mirror sites
which create listings through /bin/ls. This will fail if a file name in
a link contains a ` -> ' sequence.
Timeout to use for network read/write and connect operations. The default
is 30 seconds and is usually sufficient.
This option was added in version 0.3.8.
Do not use the poll() system call even if it's available, but use select().
This allows ftpcopy to be used together with the runsocks program
from the socks5 reference implementation. Please note that you'll
need a directly reachable name server anyway, as the DNS library
in use does not support SOCKS (you can always use IP addresses).
This option was added in version 0.3.8.
Change all local file names to lower case.
Use this only if you are absolutely sure that the remote side doesn't
contain any files or directories whose names collide with each other.
Otherwise this will waste bandwidth.
This option was added in version 0.3.8.
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These options have been added in version 0.3.0 and removed in 0.3.7.
--keep-dir made ftpcopy keep a local directory even if it had been
replaced by a link to an other directory or a file, --remove-dir
did exactly the opposite. --keep-dir was the default for
historical reasons.
The current behaviour is like that of
--remove-dir: ftpcopy creates a copy of the remote ftp site.
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In- and exclude lists are internally mixed together, keeping the
order in which they were given. The list starts with an implicit
`include *'. ftpcopy honors the last match.
The wildcard matching is done against the full remote path of the
file. The / character has no special meaning for the matching:
it is treated like any other.
Note: you have to include top level directories of files or
directories you want to include. Something like this will not
work:
--exclude "*" --include "/w/h/e/r/e/file.c"
You need to include /w, /w/h and so on.
This means:
i'm not interested in .cdb files.
precompiled stuff is also not downloaded.
the host to connect to is cr.yp.to.
the remote directory is /.
and /private/file/0/mirror/cr.yp.to is the local
directory.
