ncftp: FTP Client with Recursive Transfers

I have searched for a FTP client with recursive transfers for a while. By recursive transfers, I mean transfering the whole directory at once. For many GUI clients, this feature is quite common. What I mean here is a FTP command-line client. FTP command-line clients rarely provide such feature. A good client I have come across which can do that is ncftp . If you use Ubuntu, you can get it by

sudo apt-get install ncftp

You can start ncftp with

ncftp -u <your_ftp_user> -p <your_ftp_password> <yourhostname.here.com> 

After you are in the ncftp interface, normal FTP commands work here. To transfer the whole folder, use

mget -R folder_name 

If you need more information, issue the command

help

to see all available commands.