RE: Unix Problem !!

Tar the directory that contains the files and then ftp the tar ball.

If the files are in /foo/bar/me/stuff
cd to /foo/bar/me and then
tar cvf my.tar.ball stuff
This should take care of all the files.

Then ftp my.tar.ball (you may want to compress it first) On the other system cd to /my/new/directory and uncompress the file and then
tar cft my.tar.ball
If your version of tar supports compression you can include the compress/uncompress in the tar commands.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashish Shah [mailto:ar_shah_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 10:04 AM
> To: dbalist; lazydba
> Subject: Unix Problem !!
>
>
> I am trying to FTP 6500 files from one machine to
> another. However as soon as I say
>
> FTP > mget *
>
> I get following error message..
> "Arguments too long"
>
> Any ideas... how do I ftp all these files..If i do
> one at a time it will take me forever. I also
> try taring them up but same error message.
>
> TIA.
>
>
>
> =====
> Ashish
> Toronto, Canada
>
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Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 09:15:05 CDT