Re: can wildcards be used with ftp downloads?

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It does yes.  Will see if my client supports the mget, I hope so.
Kare



On Sat, 28 Oct 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Some FTP clients support an "mget" ("multiple get") command that
would allow a wildcard spec:

 $ ftp example.com
 ftp> cd /pub
 ftp> mget *.zip

Sometimes the client prompts you for each file with some sort of

 Do you want to download foo.zip? (Y/n)
 Do you want to download blah.zip? (Y/n)

which can be somewhat annoying.  You should be able to toggle it with
the "prompt" command.  It's also subject to the "glob" setting which
either takes the "mget" arguments literally:

 ftp> mget foo.zip blah.zip

or as globs (as in my initial example).

There may also be a "case" toggle depending on the case-sensitivity
that you want.

Hope that helps,

-Tim

On October 28, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
By which I mean can I run the command in a specific directory where
I really   want to do this like...
get *.mp3
and download all of the mp3 files in a specific folder?
I know I would change to the directory first,  I just want to
gather all of the files in this way.
possible?
Thanks,
Karen


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