You could do it this way: <pre>mget subdir1/abc* subdir2/abc* subdir3/subdir4/abc*</pre> This will work on most ftp clients. -CarlosDL ------------------------------- Here u didn't mention which OS u r using ! I am guessing, on Linux. mget copies one or more remote files to the local computer. mget can get multiple files with a wildcard, but it won’t do it recursively. Even with a client like ncftp, u can’t specify a pattern with a recursive get. there may be an ftp client out there that will do this, but the standard ftp will never do this. Instead it is better to try for rsync.

You could do it this way: <pre>mget subdir1/abc* subdir2/abc* subdir3/subdir4/abc*</pre> This will work on most ftp clients. -CarlosDL ------------------------------- Here u didn't mention which OS u r using ! I am guessing, on Linux. mget copies one or more remote files to the local computer. mget can get multiple files with a wildcard, but it won’t do it recursively. Even with a client like ncftp, u can’t specify a pattern with a recursive get. there may be an ftp client out there that will do this, but the standard ftp will never do this. Instead it is better to try for rsync.