<p>I'm trying to ftp a folder using the command line ftp client, but so far I've only been able to use 'get' to get individual files. </p>

If you can use
```
scp
```
instead of
```
ftp
```
, the
```
-r
```
option will do this for you. I would check to see whether you can use a more modern file transfer mechanism than FTP.