Im an FTP idiot, help!

[mhac]

when downloading apps from the net, im used to automatic download done for me by the browsers. i got interested in linux so i want to try it. the linux free dowload sites (with mirrors) are Greek to me! :confused: how do you guys download files through the ftp sites?

[godot]

i'm assuming it's a binary file
bin
get filename

that should do it

check out ncftp, it's easier

[demian]

The obvious method is to use a normal browser. Any halfway usable browser can handle ftp. Then there are about 1,344,458 different ftp clients available on freshmeat.net

How do I do it? Most of the time I use wget for downloading otherwise ncftp.

[mhac]

Originally posted by demian:
<STRONG>The obvious method is to use a normal browser. Any halfway usable browser can handle ftp. Then there are about 1,344,458 different ftp clients available on freshmeat.net

How do I do it? Most of the time I use wget for downloading otherwise ncftp.</STRONG>

Thanks a lot!
:cool:

[Jason King]

Yeah get a list of files you want to download and put em in a text file like so;

[url] http://www.linux.com/windows.exe

[url]
etc etc

and then with Wget;

wget -i (input the text file path and name)

This will DL the files you put in the text file. works for me. :)