Sometimes data needs moving from server to server without FXP support. For this task there is nothing simpler than good old FTP.
What about if you have a large number of subdirectories? As the plain FTP client can not fetch the files recursively shell scripting is usually the solution. But in cases where you do not really know neither the depth of the recursion or the naming convention of the file system structure, an alternative method is needed.
This method is named NcFTP Client. I got to know about it today as I quickly needed to copy several gigabytes of data spread over several subdirectories and NcFTP did its job flawlessly. I did not even have to install it as Fedora 10 already came with it by default.