getting folders with sftp

[orlox]

Hi, i'm trying to use sftp to retrieve a folder from a server, but when i try doing a get, this is what happens (the folder im trying to get is "imagenes"):

sftp> get imagenes
Fetching /opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/grupo11/imagenes to imagenes
Cannot download non-regular file: /opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/grupo11/imagenes

am I doing this right?...or to get a folder you need to do somehing else?

[souki]

you can't do a recursive get with sftp
you should use scp instead

scp -r user@host:/the/path/ .

[orlox]

I used scp and got this:

pablo@pcpablo:~/workspace/iic3592$ scp grupo11@kegan.ing.puc.cl:public_html/ -r
Password:
scp: public_html: not a regular file
pablo@pcpablo:~/workspace/iic3592$

I changed the location of the -r cause otherwise, it would give away a "usage" message...still get the same message that sftp gave me: "not a regular file"...

[souki]

you have to use absolute path, see my previous post
NB: don't forget the '.' at the end, it is the destination directory (I don't know if omiting it works)

[orlox]

Done !
thanks for your help...

[Tyson D]

Perfect! it worked for me too.

[jumpgap]

thanks for the post. helped me also.

[slavik]

old thread.