>>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2007 at  8:52 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marco
Bosisio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Hi,
> from a Linux SLES9X  using  "ftp client" and   i.e.   " mget  *.txt "
> all  files  from remote site are downloaded and replaced (with today date)
> if already present  too.
> 
> My scope is to download  only  the newer  or  not  present  on local site
> ans  skip  when  they  already exist.

If it really is an FTP server, and not an HTTP server, then:
wget -N ftp://server.name.domain/path/to/files/*.txt
will do exactly what you want.


Mark Post

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