On Jun 30, 2008, at 03:01, Mark Ryan wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to have lftp mirror a dir of MANY files
to one of my server directories with many files and autoskip files
of the same name. I tried the -x but it didn't seem to work. i
tried like this:
mirror -x /home/phil/cvs/ /home/bob/cvs/
The -x option expects a regular expression pattern:
-x RX, --exclude RX exclude matching files
RX is extended regular expression
That is, it's for excluding files whose name match the pattern you
specified.
This doesn't sound like what you are trying to do.
One of the following options seems more appropriate:
-c, --continue continue a mirror job if possible
-n, --only-newer download only newer files (-c won't work)
-N, --newer-than=SPEC download only files newer than specified time
If the files with the matching names also have the same content on
both systems, then "mirror -c" should work.
Otherwise, maybe you could use one of the other two options based on
last modification dates.
If you touch all your local files, updating their last modification
time-stamp to the current time, then doing a "mirror -n" lftp should
skip all the already existing file names.
eg.
[in your shell:]
find source-directory -type f -exec touch {} +
[then in lftp:]
mirror -n source-directory
