Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:42:30 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: wildcard usage in fetch Message-ID: <20070822084136.M88943@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <20070821160431.A56007@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBEEGBCGAA.fbsd2@a1poweruser.com> <20070821160431.A56007@bravo.pjkh.com>
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>> 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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