My 1st Blog

unfortunately using the bare-bone command line shell ftp which comes with linux/unix and  without any scripting or some special command line utility
you wont be able to directly download a directory from a server

If you are trying to connect to a remote host with wget and wget is instantly throwing a “bad port number” error to your face without even trying to connect than please note that it is due to certain special characters which you have supplied to wget in the password filed