On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:16:21AM +0100, Nicolas Noble wrote:
> Somebody asked me a question, and I wasn't able to answer. So I ask it to
> you. Is it possible to do something like this in lftp
>
> `ls kde* |grep -v i18n |awk '!/devel/{print "mget "$1}'`
>
> ie giving an quite complex expression, where the result will be a bunch of
> commands feeded to the lftp's command line?
>
> Well, I don't think the backquote is implemented in lftp, I am wrong? And
It is not implemented. You can do what you want with a temporary file:
ls kde* |grep -v i18n |awk '!/devel/{print "mget "$1}' > tmp-file
source tmp-file
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Alexander.
