Hello, I want to create a list of all the files that lftp has d/l to my local computer and then use that list to have the next run exclude them from being d/l again. I cannot find anything specific in the man page that allows you to use a file with stuff to exclude.
I did come across this post https://multimerch.com/blog/rsync-lftp-and-exclude-lists/ "I searched for an ftp alternative to rsync and stumbled upon lftp in this post. It looked really nice until I found out lftp doesn't support exclude lists, which means you can't make it read exclude patterns from a file. The good news is, lftp does allow you to specify multiple --exclude switches at once, so I modified the command to make use of my exclude-list.txt like this: lftp -u username,password -e "mirror --only-newer sed 's/^/--exclude /' exclude-list.txt | tr 'n' ' ' --reverse /path/to/local/dir /path/to/public_html" server.com This way, sed prepends every line with an --exclude switch and tr replaces newlines so in the end we have our lftp mirror command with all necessary excludes in it." but am not sure if there is a more simple approach as this seems complicated to a beginner in linux. Please let me know if this is the best way to exclude files from d/l from a file. Thanks
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