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[jackel]

Hi i am trying to find out how to retrieve a tar from my ftp with is not anonymous and download the file to the machine i am installing linux on with kickstart but cannot find how to ftp the file is it just a series of commands eg
ftp -n 143.229.45.82
user anonymous password
binary
lcd /root
get file.tar

or do i have to do something like echo the commands

[Jman]

You're probably better off using a non interactive tool like wget. It's basically just

wget -P /root ftp://143.229.45.82/file.tar

I think it's installed by default, you can add to your package list to be sure.