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Transferring More Than One File

  You can use the commands mget and mput to transfer multiple files, including those filenames containing wildcards. For example, if you want to get several files with names ending in .temp, you could enter this command at the ftp> prompt:

mget *.temp

The system will prompt you for each file to get. If you want to turn the prompting off and have FTP get every file, you can issue the following command before entering the mget command:

prompt

(The prompt is ON by default, so entering the above command toggles it OFF.)



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