I have done some more digging on freshmeat, and it turns out there's a ready-made program that does *exactly* what i want. It's part of the package "ncftp" , and it's called like this:
ncftpls -R ftp://ftp.someserver.com This will produce a neat listing of all the files on the server, with their dates,times, exact filesize and so on. Thanks a lot for your input in this case! Best regards, Cedric On Sunday 15 October 2006 17:52, cedric wrote: > I've tried to create a shell script that uses wget, but i can't get the > listing of the remote server without actually downloading the complete > server. I can however get the listing of the top directory of the ftp site. > > Could you please give me the magic line to let wget spit out the recursive > contents of the FTP server? > > Best regards, and thanks for your trouble, > Cedric > > On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:47, John Lockman wrote: > > It would be easy to throw together a simple perl, or even bash script > > to go check the current list of files on the ftp server and diff it > > against the one it last had. Give it a shot. > > > > On 10/15/06, cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > First of all, i apologize for my very much off-topic question. I hope > > > however there's somebody who can help me on this one. > > > > > > The new versions of software i use and support are on a ftp server. New > > > versions are dumped there, but nobody tells me when a new version > > > arrives. ;-) > > > > > > There are a lot of ftp clients out there, but i have not yet found a > > > version that lets me see if there's a new version of a file without > > > downloading it first. > > > > > > Has anybody seen such a program? > > > > > > Greetings, > > > Cedric > > > -- > > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > > > -- > > _________________________________________________________________________ > >__ "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." > > -Linus Torvalds > > "Windows is easier than Linux, just like crapping your pants is easier > > than going to the bathroom." > > - Martin from compsci.ca forums > > _________________________________________________________________________ > >__ Things I found but won't tell you where I got them: > > - "When encryption is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl" > > > > - "Trust No one" > > _________________________________________________________________________ > >__ If you think this signature was boring, I suggest you make a better one > > for me. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
