To change directories, use the command cd followed by the name of the directory e. Then, you can print your current working directory again to check the new path. For example, you can change the working directory to an existing documents directory under your home directory, and then check that the current working directory has been updated. You can go back to the parent directory of any current directory by using the command cd.. You can also go back to your home directory e. The first step in creating a new directory is to navigate to the directory that you would like to be the parent directory to this new directory using cd.
Then, use the command mkdir followed by the name you would like to give the new directory e. For example, you can create a new directory under documents called assignments. Then, you can navigate into the new directory called assignments , and print the current working directory to check the new path. Notice that mkdir command has no output. Also, because assignments is provided to Bash as a relative path i. Data Tip: Directory vs Folder: You can think of a directory as a folder.
Hank Gay Hank Gay Maybe in , but in bandwidth doesn't matter anymore and you might have FTP but not console access :- — Daniel W. Jazz Jazz 5, 5 5 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 53 53 bronze badges. Phillip Phillip 31 1 1 bronze badge. To copy remote directories remotely, these options are better: rsync is the best-suited tool if you can login via ssh , because it copies only the differences, and can easily restart in the middle in case the connection breaks.
Tilo Tilo 32k 4 4 gold badges 72 72 silver badges bronze badges. FTP should not be used. I agree. And suggestions for better security should always be given.
I respectfully disagree. They are using the wrong tool for the job. They should learn to use secure and current tools, rather than 's ftp. More specifically, nobody should run an ftp server anymore :P — Tilo. Rohit Rohit 53 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. This will not work: mget is not recursive.
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Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Note the JDownloader installer version contains adware. This next download manager program is quite old but has a feature called Site Explorer which allows you to browse websites like in Windows Explorer. FlashGet has more recent versions than the 1.
Enter the URL and then you can browse through the site and download the files in any folder. If the site is using FTP, folders can also be multi selected and the files inside those folders will be downloaded. Only the files inside the root folder will download if the site is HTTP. Make sure to avoid the Google Toolbar offer during install. Download Flashget v1. Popular browser extensions for downloading files in recent times have been DownThemAll!
However, there are still extensions available for both Chrome and Firefox that can download files from a website or FTP folder. Note: All the browser extensions below will only download the files from the root folder in the browser tab, they will not recurse into sub folders.
If you select a folder from the download list it will simply download as an unknown file. Chrono Download Manager is one of the most popular extensions of its type for Chrome.
Click the Chrono toolbar button and switch to the sniffer mode with the top right button in the window. Then, cycle through the tabs selecting all the files with the top checkbox, check files individually or use the file type filter boxes below.
Download Chrono Download Manager. Alternatively, zip also has a -r recursive option to do entire directory trees at once and not have to worry about the dotfile problem :. Note that the produced zip will contain the directory structure as well as the files. As peterph points out in his comment, this is usually seen as a good thing: extracting the zip will neatly store all the extracted files in one subdirectory. The zip command comes with documentation telling you about all of its many options; type man zip to see that documentation.
This isn't unique to zip; you can get documentation for most commands this way. In my case I wanted to zip each file into its own archive, so I did the following in zsh :. Another way would be to use find and xargs: this might include a ". With my test, zip stripped the dot before compression find. It will be slower though This will by default include all sub-directories.
On GNU find -maxdepth can prevent that. In bash , it would deal with a large amount of files. Really handy in many cases, as many other tools can work with the. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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