lftp and scripts

[Scott MacKenzie]

Hi,

Can anyone give me some examples of how to combine lftp script commands 
with shell script commands.  I'd like to be able to re-direct the 
output of certain commands such that decisions can be made based on the 
output.  I'd also like to be able to generate a list, eg. 
subdirectories, and process them in a 'for NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do 
COMMANDS;' kind of way.

Regards,

Scott.

Re: lftp and scripts

[Nicolas Noble]

 Hi,

 Can anyone give me some examples of how to combine lftp script commands
 with shell script commands.  I'd like to be able to re-direct the
 output of certain commands such that decisions can be made based on the
 output.  I'd also like to be able to generate a list, eg.
 subdirectories, and process them in a 'for NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do
 COMMANDS;' kind of way.

As far as I know, there is no way of doing this in lftp.

Re: lftp and scripts

[Glenn Maynard]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:22:06PM +0200, Nicolas Noble wrote:
  Can anyone give me some examples of how to combine lftp script commands
  with shell script commands.  I'd like to be able to re-direct the
  output of certain commands such that decisions can be made based on the

Well, you can redirect many commands, but lftp doesn't have any
conditionals except || and .

  output.  I'd also like to be able to generate a list, eg.
  subdirectories, and process them in a 'for NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do
  COMMANDS;' kind of way.
 
 As far as I know, there is no way of doing this in lftp.

Hmm.  There's no 'for' construct in lftp.  You could do this
explicitely, with a script that takes WORDS as stdin, has a hardcoded
NAME and outputs an unrolled loop on stdout.  (Or takes NAME as
argv[1].)  'source' the result.

Not very clean, though.

-- 
Glenn Maynard