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Question for anyone who knows: what is the best way to download files from an ftp site via a bash shell?

I used to know how to do this when there were literally ftp sites. Now I want to download files from https://www2.census.gov/, which also in some sense exists as ftp://ftp2.census.gov/ . It allows anonymous logins. I have no idea how to do that via sftp, though, and ftp itself no longer exists as a command in my bash shell. I can get files from this site via a browser, or via a desktop program that uses sftp/ssh like Fileziia, but I'm trying to copy files to my server directly.

#ftp #bash