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Use the -R (recursive) flag:

get -R .

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Use:

scp -r mpirocch@my-server:/home/mpirocch/Documents Documents

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Use lftp:

lftp sftp://user@host

Then, within lftp, cd into the directory you want to copy, and use the mirror command to recursively download the selected directory, like this:

mirror

This command accepts options and arguments:

mirror [OPTIONS] [source [target]]

For example, the -R (or --reverse) option will cause it to upload the local directory tree to the remote directory:

mirror -R

See the lftp(1) man page at the project’s site or at Debian.org for other commands and options.

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well this little guide should help, mirror a remote server to local folder with lftp

lftp sftp://user:password@server.org:22 -e 'mirror --verbose --use-pget-n=8 -c /remote/path /local/path'

• sftp:// = uses SFTP protocol
• mirror = mirror mode
• verbose = shows the files being downloaded
• use-pget-n = number of segments, realy useful to speed up big files
• parallel = downloads multiplier files at the same time

if you want to download files in parallel switch out use-pget-n=8 with --parallel=8

hope this helps anyone needing to mirror a remote folder to a local folder

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get -r [directory]

gets [directory] and everything under it, where r stands for recursive. I found this just by typing help from sftp.

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Try mget instead of get.

Clarification: mget will work if you are inside the directory you want to copy; if you do something like this:

sftp> cd dir_to_get
sftp> mget *

it will get all the files in that directory. However, it will not recursively get the contents of any subdirectories.

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As with cp:

scp -rp user@host:/path/to/dir dir

The above will preserve times and modes of the original files and subdirectories. This is especially useful for the retrieval of backups.

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I have Java dist folder in remote server, where i have following tree:

- dist
--- Audio.jar
--- README
--- lib
----- lib.jar

Goal is: I want to use SFTP? And put them in /tmp/<>

Step 1. sftp remoteuser@ip

Step 2. cd /var/tmp

Step 2. lmkdir /tmp/dist; lmkdir /tmp/dist/lib

Step 3. lcd /tmp/dist

Step 4. mget *

Step 5. lcd /tmp/dist/lib

Step 6. mget *

Step 7. finally i have my goal

$ ls
Audio.jar  lib  README.TXT

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I recently solved this with lftp:

lftp -c '
open sftp://USER:PASSWORD@remoteserver.example.com:22
mirror --verbose --use-pget-n=8 -c /remote/catalogue/ /local/catalogue/
'

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sftp -r user@myserver:/some_remote_directory /tmp/localdir
(it's important to specify the destination directory, otherwise it will just log in)

... worked for me (on Ubuntu 23)

or interactively:

sftp user@myserver
cd some_remote_directory
mget *

(mget stands for "multiple get" and the *-wildcard to get all files)