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Re: using wildcard to pull all files

From: Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 03:23:07 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Mon, 5/4/09, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> Subject: Re: using wildcard to pull all files
> To: "the curl tool" <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 2:01 AM
> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Sivakumar P
> wrote:
>
> > I use libcurl v 7.19.4.  The functionality
> require pulling all files from FTP Server using FTP over ssl
> in unix environment. I could not use wildcard (*.*) 
> Pls suggest how to use wildcards.
>
> 1) Get the list of files
>
> 2) run the wildcard check locally with your required
> wildcard functionality
>
> 3) get each file one after another that matches your
> wildcard function
>
> You'll probably notice that there's no single "proper" way
> to do this.
>
> --
> / daniel.haxx.se

I think TFTP, for example, doesn't even allow to get file list.

Regards,
  Sergei.

      
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Received on 2009-05-04