Ok, I have added new mirror options. Please see https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/commit/391b5b9ee0c9f5c58cfad0951f3f6b1e15a12cc2
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 05:36:59PM +0000, Alexander Lukyanov wrote: > Is it better to list file patterns in the file or plain file paths? > > вт, 1 марта 2016, 7:56 Steven Dennis <nzdreame...@gmail.com>: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > lftp mailing list > > lftp@uniyar.ac.ru > > http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp > > > _______________________________________________ > lftp mailing list > lftp@uniyar.ac.ru > http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp _______________________________________________ lftp mailing list lftp@uniyar.ac.ru http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp
