Thanks.
That command works fine on a normal bash command line.
In my bash script to run lftp this bit \"$(basename "${f%.*}")*\" always
returns nothing so my mirror command results in mirror - I *
Can you please advise what is wrong? I have tried a few things but my
scripting experience is limited.
Thanks again
2011/3/5 Daniel Fazekas <[email protected]>
> On Mar 5, 2011, at 02:18, Daniel Freeman wrote:
>
> > Firstly I'm mirroring a remote directory with index files like
> "song.index" to a local directory.
>
> mirror -I *.index
>
> That's an uppercase “I” as in include.
> -X or --exclude-glob is the opposite, as you could see in the lftp man
> page.
>
> If they are all in one directory, you could also use mget:
> mget *.index
>
> > Then for each index file I want to take its name ie "song" and use this
> to only include mirror files that start with "song".
> > I appreciate if you can help with this. Otherwise I would have to do a
> local directory listing and construct the include list manually.
>
> If you downloaded the files locally in the previous step anyway, I don't
> see why executing some commands on the local system would hurt. At the lftp
> command line, you can simply prefix a line with an exclamation mark and it
> gets executed as a local shell command. So for a *nix system with a bash
> shell, you could write:
>
> !find . -type f -name '*.index' | while read -r f; do echo mirror -I
> \"$(basename "${f%.*}")*\"; done | sort | uniq > /tmp/lftp-mirror-cmds
>
> source /tmp/lftp-mirror-cmds
>
> Making the above commands safe if the "*.index" prefixes could have special
> characters (line feed, ", etc) in their names is an exercise left to you. :)
>
