On 2009-12-01 00:12, Peng Yu wrote: > I'm want to grep some online files below. Instead of downloading the > files, I want to grep them online. Is there an option in grep or some > tools that are similar to grep that can search online files directly? > > ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/database/
Try the power of UN*X: wget -q -O - ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/database/ | grep whatever :)
