2009/1/3 <[email protected]>:
> ---- 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
>
>
Must this be doable just from base? Otherwise, just install lftp which
is scriptable in itself and can easily do stuff like mirror, get
whatever.
