hi! this should do the trick :)
---cut--- #!/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. Daniel Stenberg wrote: > > 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: retrieve wget-someversion.tar.gz and wget fetches only the > > latest version (in this example: wget-1.7.tar.gz). And when > > wget-1.8.tar.gz is out it will retrieve only this one. > > This can't possibly be made "built-in". > > Instead I suggest you do this: Retrieve the directory first, have a script > parse it and check for the most recent version present. Check if the most > recent one in the remote directory is more recent than the one you have > locally and if it is, get it. > > -- > Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77 > ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol -- Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal home page at http://www.biscom.net/~cade DataMax Ltd. http://www.datamax.bg Too many hopes and dreams won't see the light...
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