lftp have options like --depth-first and --no-recursion I think it will make sense to have an option like " --iterative" for iterative file transfer. This option will fetch the full file list and then fetch them iteratively.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:29 PM, akshay gupta <akshaygupta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the functionality of mirror:sort-by option implies that the order > is for all the files irrespective of the directory structure. Or may be it > should support both the options and it would be configuration defined which > one to use. > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Alexander Lukyanov <lavv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Mirror in lftp works directory by directory. It does not build full list >> of files first, so it cannot sort the whole list. Maybe the mirror >> algorithm should be redesigned to build the whole recursive list first. >> What do you think? >> >> 2014-10-29 10:07 GMT+03:00 akshay gupta <akshaygupta...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to mirror files using mirror:sort-by option set to >>> 'date-desc'. My file structure is like this >>> >>> $ ls -l -R >>> total 3191264 >>> drwxr-xr-x 3 vikasgoyal biadmin 102 Oct 22 12:35 1 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 vikasgoyal biadmin 0 Aug 1 01:00 tmp.txt >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 vikasgoyal biadmin 0 Aug 1 05:31 tmp1.txt >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 vikasgoyal biadmin 263940738 Oct 28 13:51 abc.csv >>> >>> ./1: >>> total 0 >>> drwxr-xr-x 4 vikasgoyal biadmin 136 Oct 28 14:19 2 >>> >>> ./1/2: >>> total 515512 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 vikasgoyal biadmin 0 Oct 28 14:19 3 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 vikasgoyal biadmin 263940732 Oct 28 14:03 bc.csv >>> >>> >>> I expect the file synch order should be >>> >>> ~/tmp.txt >>> ~/tmp1.txt >>> ~/abc.csv >>> ~/1/2/bc.csv >>> ~/1/2/3 >>> >>> >>> but the synch order is: >>> ~/tmp.txt >>> ~/tmp1.txt >>> ~/1/2/bc.csv >>> ~/1/2/3 >>> ~/abc.csv >>> >>> >>> I think its the folder modification time that is causing this issue. >>> Lftp considers folder synch time to decide the order even though files >>> contained in the folder are newer then the remaining files in the parent >>> folder. File synch order should be in order of the modification time >>> irrespective of the folder structure. Please help. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Akshay >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alexander. >> > >
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