How can i download or clone a copy of all the folders and its sub directories from an ftp without the files themselves?
1 Answer
There is a spider
option in wget
that will skip the files and only create the directories:
wget --recursive --spider ftp://$source
The command man wget
is usually a good resource for this kind of thing, but is rather unclear when describing this particular option (saying something about how this makes wget behave like a web spider to check if a file exists without downloading it).
In contrast, the command wget --help
is very helpful, and for the --spider
command it says:
don't download anything