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From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>
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Subject: RE: Simple script ?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:04:16 -0500
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Sure it would be, I would not have to install the portupgrade port which
uses ruby a dependent port. That sure is a lot of disk space just to replace
one FTP command.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott M. Nolde [mailto:scott@smnolde.com]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:48 AM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
Cc: FBSDQ
Subject: Re: Simple script ?

Would it be any different than pkg_fetch(1)?


Joe & Fhe Barbish(barbish@a1poweruser.com)@2002.02.25 09:35:19 +0000:
> I have the following script that I call getpackage.
> I want to change it so I can say getpackage misc/ytree-1.74.tgz
> or any other directory/file name and it will be substituted in the ftp
> command.
>
> How do I do this?
> #! /bin/sh
>
> ftp -a -v
>
ftp5.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/packages/misc/ytree-
> 1.74.tgz
>
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