On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:48:30PM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> 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
... or so even:
!mkfifo tmp-pipe
ls kde* |grep -v i18n |awk '!/devel/{print "mget "$1}' > tmp-pipe &
source tmp-pipe
!rm tmp-pipe
If disk space is insufficient for storing a list of files
or file names are too secret for storing on the disk :-)
However there is such thing as swap area...
So desirable security is unreachable by this way
if swap area is active :-)
--
Alexey
