On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:12:53PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Though I don't have time to send tips anymore(not right now), i will > try to send > whatever valuable information I have from time to time. > > $lftp http://www.openbsd.org/ > lftp> mget *pdf > lftp> quit
This was extremely useful. I was not aware of this trick. Thanks. > LFTP is what wget should have done. ;) > > LFTP can talk HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SFTP and so on. ;) I wish to add that lftp is particularly useful for sftp, in that it supports tab completion (unlike sftp). Also useful is the "mirror" command, which can be used to recreate a remote structure on the local machine (or vice-versa with the -R argument). Kumar -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : bash tricks (#1) LOST #147 Why re-type a full command. At the bash prompt "!" allows you to go back to the last command executed with a search pattern. e.g. During an edit-compile session you entered something like gcc -o test test.c, and then edited it again, to re-compile it all you do is enter '!gcc' [Enter] ... and there it goes ... ####[dnanib (at) yahoo.com]################################### : _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
