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 knowledge).
So thanks once again. Regards, Florian On Wednesday 10 October 2001 13:16, you wrote: > 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
