Hello out there,
thank you for you replies! In principle this perl script does what I want.
Of course i do not only want to use it for downloading wget-source-packages.
But with a little logic added this script could become a usefull tool for me
(well i think i have to start improving my perl k
hi!
this should do the trick :)
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $url = "http://ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/wget/";;
my $prog = "wget";
my $latest = (reverse sort `wget $url -O -` =~ /$prog-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz/g )[0];
system "wget -c $url$prog-$latest.tar.gz" if $latest;
--cut--
P! Vladi.
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > For example in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget there might be
> > wget-1.5.tar.gz, wget-1.6.tar.gz, wget-1.7.tar.gz. I would like to "say"
> > to wget: retrieve wget-someversion.tar.gz and wget fetches only the
> > latest version (in this example: wg
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Florian Simnacher wrote:
> is it possible to make wget retrieve only the latest version of a given
> *.tar.gz source package?
>
> For example in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget there might be
> wget-1.5.tar.gz, wget-1.6.tar.gz, wget-1.7.tar.gz. I would like to "say"
> to wget:
Hello out there,
is it possible to make wget retrieve only the latest version of a
given *.tar.gz source package?
For example in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget there might be
wget-1.5.tar.gz, wget-1.6.tar.gz, wget-1.7.tar.gz. I would like
to "say" to wget: retrieve wget-someversion.tar.gz and w
