[CRON] Recommended FTP client to download and upload files?

Jeffrey Goldberg jeffrey at goldmark.org
Sat May 3 16:14:50 UTC 2008


On May 3, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Gilles wrote:

> 	I need to run a CRON job to download files from one FTP server if
> they're more recent, and upload them to another FTP server. The files
> all live in one directory, so there's no need for recursion.
>
> What command-line FTP client would you recommend for this?

lftp in ports.

It is very scriptable and has built in facilities to only copy "newer"  
files.

Cheers,

-j

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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/



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