Wget

[Christophe Le Guern]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:07:52 -0500
"David C. Hart" <dch at TQMcube.com> wrote:

> I realize that generic unix questions are a bit OT but I could use some
> help. Apparently, wget's username/password authentication is limited to
> HTTP. Is there a similar client that will do this for FTP or should I
> just script the function (I have a recurring download job that I want to
> Cron)?

I use .netrc file for ftp jobs.

Look at http://www.mavetju.org/unix/netrc.php for examples.

Christophe