I want to know how to write a script that would use the standard Linux FTP command to download all the mp3 files from a FTP server cause GET *.mp3 doesn't work. Also how would I write the same script but as a batch file to be run in windows cmd through the windows native FTP command?

If you don't have a specific reason to use ftp (the program), you could just as well use wget; it allows for recursive downloading and limiting to certain file extensions, for example .mp3 in your case. The man page of wget contains all you need, but probably you'll do fine with arguments for recursive downloading (-r) and accepting mp3 suffix (-A.mp3); if you need to, you can also restrict the download to given depth (of subdirs), tell it to (not to) create directories etc. I think the short way is

see if it works..

By the way, what problems did you have using
with ftp (m in the mget as in "multiple")? Or did I get you wrong?

Aye that works quite nicely, However I would like to know how a script would look like using normal FTP.

Dunno about ftp, I don't have it installed, but with lftp you can do something like I posted here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3483244

usually, you would use the here document