wildcard usage in fetch
Rakhesh Sasidharan
rakhesh at rakhesh.com
Tue Aug 21 21:44:18 PDT 2007
>> fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:password@my.pics.com/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.*
>>
>> The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and
>> contains 00 through 99 as directory names.
>> The *.* means all files in this directory.
>>
>> When I execute this I get logged in but get file
>> not found or not available error message.
>>
>> Is wildcard usage not allowed in ftp?
>>
>> How would you suggest to accomplish downloading source file
>> directory structure and their contents?
>
> You might look into curl. I know it has some wildcarding capabilities.
I haven't done ftp'ing around in a while. But a long time ago, when I did,
I used ncftp. That does wildcarding iirc.
Regards,
- Rakhesh
http://rakhesh.com/
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