On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:58:57PM -0500, Kelley, Kris wrote:
> The main one is to be able to pipe the output of a program into a 'put', e.g.
> via syntax like:
>
> lftp> put "| myprog -a args" -o "load,dbname=mydb"
You can use a named pipe:
lftp> !mkfifo db-fifo; myprog -a args > db-fifo &
lftp> put db-fifo -o "load,dbname=mydb"
Not quite nice, but it works.
> BTW, other features are:
> - piping the output of a 'get' to a program (e.g. 'get data -o "| myprog2 -i
> args"')
lftp> cat -b file | myprog
> - turning off retries for a put/get that receives a 4xx reply (i.e. respond
> the same as for a 5xx reply)
lftp> set net:max-retries 1
I'm not sure if it works properly for put, some time ago there were reports
that it does not, but probably it was fixed later.
--
Alexander.
