FTP and command-line multiple downloads

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:10:21PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:

> > As far as I can see, this is a client-side problem of CURRENT's
> > ftp(1).  FreeBSD ftp(1) was completely replaced with "lukemftp,"
> > ftp client from NetBSD, in CURRENT a year ago.  The commit message
> > was promising:
> > 
> > 	...Lukemftp supports most of the previous features of FreeBSD
> > 	ftp, but has been better maintained and includes new features.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this particular feature doesn't fall into that most;
> > "lukemftp" can't seem to detect a glob pattern on the command line.
> 
> I must admit that I overlooked this feature in lukemftp.  In fact,
> lukemftp can download multiple files specified as a wildcard via ftp.
> However, lukemftp accepts wildcards only in the "classic" ftp file
> specification, i.e., host:path/file, and not in URLs.
> 
> Do you think the ability to use command-line wildcards should be
> extended to URLs as well?  Luke Mewburn may be convinced to do that
> in his ftp client.  Technically, the task is as easy as removing a
> single logical subexpression from an "if" statement.

lukem doesn't want to change it..I suppose the difference and
workaround should be documented in the manpage.  I'm happy with the
workaround.

Kris
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