fget(1) FTP Utilities fget(1)NAMEfget - commandline FTP client
SYNOPSISfget [options] URL ...
fget [options] -l URL ...
fget [options] -e URL ...
VERSION
This man page documents version 1.3 of fget.
DESCRIPTIONfget is a commandline FTP utility. It allows simple mirroring of data
from remote FTP servers.
OPTIONS
Options which turn on or off features act as toggles. Specifying them
twice will return to the default behavior.
-c Chase symbolic links. The link itself will be downloaded, as
well as the file or directory it points to. This option has no
effect when -D is specified. (This option is active by default,
except in list mode.)
-C dir Save files to local directory dir instead of the current direc‐
tory.
-d Increment debug level. Higher debug levels produce more output
from the FTP connection.
-D Dereference symbolic links. Instead of downloading the a sym‐
link from the FTP server, fget will download the file that the
link points to.
-e Estimate mode. fget will estimate the total size of the
requested files, rather than downloading them.
-E extendfs_command
If the filesystem fills up while fget is downloading files, it
will run this command to gain more space on the filesystem.
(This is primarily intended for systems like AIX where filesys‐
tems can be grown on the fly, but the command could also be a
script which deletes old files to free up space.)
-F Fix symbolic links. Symlinks which point to an absolute path
will be converted to point to a relative path before being mir‐
rored. This option has no effect when -D is specified.
-H Use host directories. Normally, if you download
ftp://ftp.feep.net/pub/software/fget/, the files are saved in
the subdirectory fget. However, if you specify the -H option,
the files are saved in the subdirectory ftp.feep.net/pub/soft‐
ware/fget.
-i cache_interval
The cache_interval argument specifies the maximum number of sec‐
onds a directory cache entry is valid for. If a cache entry is
found which is older than this value, the directory is refreshed
from the server. If set to -1, there is no limit. The default
is -1.
-I urlfile
Reads list of URLs from urlfile. The URLs read from the file
are treated the same as if they had been specified on the com‐
mand line.
-l List mode. fget will list files at the specified FTP location,
rather than downloading them. Specifying -l will also disable
recursive operation (see -R) and chasing of symbolic links (see
-c).
-m max_sessions
Normally, fget caches connections so that it will not have to
reconnect if multiple URLs point to the same FTP server and
login. This option sets the number of cached connections to
max_sessions. The default is 5.
-M cache_maxsize
The cache_maxsize argument specifies the maximum number of valid
directory cache entries to be kept at any given time for each
active FTP connection. If set to -1, there is no limit. The
default is 1024.
-N Do not replace local files unless the copy on the server has a
newer date. (This is the default.)
-p Disables passive FTP mode. (Passive mode is on by default.)
-P Attempt to preserve ownership and permissions of remote files.
Note that this may not be possible, since the same user or group
may not exist on the local host.
-q Quiet mode. fget displays no output unless an error occurs.
-r Do not remove local files which do not exist on the server.
(The default is to remove these files.)
-R Recursive operation. (This option is on by default, except in
list mode.)
-s Do not replace local files unless the copy on the server is a
different size than the local copy. (This is the default.)
-S When downloading a directory, download files into the current
directory, instead of creating a subdirectory with the name of
the remote directory. This option is ignored when -H is speci‐
fied. (The default is to download the files into a subdirec‐
tory.)
-t timeout
Sets the I/O timeout to timeout seconds. A value of -1 means no
timeout (although the kernel may still enforce timeouts for cer‐
tain operations). The default is -1.
-T num_retries
Sets the number of times to retry a failed connection to
num_retries. A value of 0 means unlimited retries. The default
is 1.
-v Increase verbosity. This option can be specified multiple
times.
-V Print fget's version and compile-time defaults.
BUGS
Probably quite a few. Reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO
The fget Homepage (http://www.feep.net/fget/)
AUTHOR
Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
Feep Networks January 2004 fget(1)
