I am adding this to the mirror option. --exclude-glob distri/sites/.*/files/styles/ My plan is to exclude the styles directory fully. The problem is that it is insubfolders of
distri/sites/foo/styles distri/sites/foo1/styles distri/sites/foo2/styles distri/sites/foobar/styles ... with the exclude option i posted above lftp will still download folders like: distri/sites/foobar/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/rattan_ernte2.jpg thankys for helping me. I actually writing on a small script that mirrors an ftp to localhost: lftp -e " set ftp:list-options -a; set ftp:charset ISO-8859-15; set ssl:check-hostname no; set net:timeout 60; set net:max-retries 2; set net:reconnect-interval-base 5; open ftp://$user:$pass@$host; lcd $local_dir; cd $remote_dir; mirror --use-cache \ --parallel=3 \ --continue \ --delete \ --verbose=1 \ --exclude-glob screensnapr/ \ --exclude-glob usage/ \ --exclude-glob logs/ \ --exclude-glob cgi-bin/ \ --exclude-glob INCOMING/ \ --exclude-glob distri/sites/.*/files/styles/ \ --exclude-glob amazon/ quit" | tee log.txt _______________________________________________ lftp mailing list lftp@uniyar.ac.ru http://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/mailman/listinfo/lftp