Downloading Files from Command Line via FTP

At the command line, enter ftp <serverName>.

If you have a user name and password, enter them. Otherwise, use the default of Anonymous and a blank password.

Use cd, ls, etc. to work your way around the directory structure.

If you want to download a particular file, specify get <fileName>.  If you want to download many files, use mget <filePattern> (for example, mget *.gz). By default it will ask you to confirm every file download. You can disable this by entering prompt and then hitting Enter before doing the mget.

Enter bye to exit.

(I think this works the same on Windows as it does on *nix operating systems.)