> The old files never change. A new file is added once each day. > Another solution would be to have a second switch that orders > downloading only files later than a specified date.
That switch might be added too, yes.
The second switch limiting the date range would be extremely useful. The ftp site has old files going back two years, all files from the very beginning of the establishment of this ftp site. The host appears to never delete old files. I don't need any of the very old files, just to keep maybe three months worth or so in case I need to "look again." But with current syntax as I understand it, I keep the old files so that they won't be downloaded again.
There are other workarounds, as the filename contains the date in the filename, and I could use the appropriate stem of the filename plus an asterisk, in this instance, to be re-useable for at least a short period of time. But I would love something more generally applicable, which in this instance would mean that the command line would "never" change. (Change it a couple of times a year at the DST switchover points.)
Thanks,
Fred Holmes
