If you’re like me, you hate using a FTP GUI for doing simple gets. Sometimes, GUIs get in the way and bog the transfer down. I prefer to take out the middle man and use command line. Here’s a nifty snippet I picked up along the way that lets you recursively download entire directories. The files are stored in their identical structure in your working directory.

wget -r --user %user% --password %password% ftp://%server%/full/path

If you want to stick with pure FTP commands, you can use the following:

#Turn off confirmation for getting each file
ftp>prompt
ftp>mget *