Sometimes you don't have SSH access to a server, or your FTP client is misbehaving (i.e., connects but can't list the directories) and you need to download a whole directory, you can use the following in your terminal.

download_remote_directory.md

From the terminal, fire this up:

wget -r ftp://user:[email protected]/<path to your directory>

If you've some special characters in the credentials, you can specify the --user and --password arguments to get it to work.

Example with custom login with specific characters:

wget -r --user="user@login" --password="Pa$$wo|^D" ftp://server.com/<path to your directory>

Be sure to be in the directory on your local machine that you want these files to be copied to.