How do I get an entire directory in sftp?

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Published on 2009-09-12T21:39:59Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 14:03 UTC
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I'm just learning to use sftp, and I want to copy a directory from the remote computer to my local computer. If I try

get [directory]

it gives me this error:

Cannot download non-regular file: /home/mpirocch/Documents

get -R doesn't work, either.

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