Apparently that loop failed, it was placing the actual '$file' as the
filename. If there is no list option for filenames then I'll have to
look into writing an lftp script.
Thanks.
Ken Garland wrote:
I have seen this asked a few times in the list, but I was unable to
locate an answer or even a reply. What I would like to do is download
a list of files contained in a text file using lftp. Something like so:
lftp --file-list download
The file download would contain:
file1.tar
file2.tar
file3.tar
file4.tar
This is what I'm doing currently:
#!/bin/bash
for file in `cat download`; do
lftp -u <user>,<pass> <host> -e 'get $file; exit';
done
Which would take a considerable amount of time with a long list of
files instead of using one instance of lftp to download multiple files.
- Ken
