I'm using lftp-3.5.6 (lftp-3.5.7 fails to build on my machine). I need to mirror a directory that has 2500+ files that match a set of patterns. The actual directory size is much larger. I have no control over this. A single mirror command sends 2500+ MDTM commands for each file before starting any file transfers. Even if they did split up the directory it would still execute the same number of MDTM commands.
In contrast, wget uses the timestamps returned by a single LIST command. Is there any way to get the current version of lftp to do this more efficiently? If not, would it be possible to enhance lftp use the same method employed by wget? Thanks, Tony O'Hagan
