---- johan beisser <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > > > You're right. You're so right, in fact, that I'd already changed the > > code; even I noticed that my original was bad practice. > > You're doing this in perl, and not using Net::FTP? >
I'm starting to think that's the way to do it. > > But my real problem was getting the download to work inside a script, > > and none of the presented ideas so far have helped that. > > > from ftp(1): > Note: mget and mput are not meant to transfer entire directory > subtrees of files. That can be > done by transferring a tar(1) archive of the subtree (in binary > mode). > I don't want a tree. The URLs (I thought) pretty clearly showed that I was looking for the snaphot files, in the snaphot directory, which is well known and does not require recursion. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL
