There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

In command line ftp how can i "get" a whole directory? It seems like I have to get each individual file. <P>Also, if the file names are 20 characters long shouldn't I be able to use a 8 character name ...

In my never ending quest to always learn more about linux (e.g. I would like to know the answer to this) is there a way to download multiple file from a single directory. I'm talking on the order of ...