Can anyone help with this?
On 26 March 2011 18:27, Daniel Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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. :)
>>
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