How about using `wget' in a script: #!/bin/bash wget --quiet "ftp://file-archive.wherever/pub/file1.tar"; wget --quiet "ftp://file-archive.wherever/pub/file2.tar"; echo Done. HTH, and have a great day. On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:26:22PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > Say I want to get 2 files via ftp, but I want to do it in a specific > order, and I don't want file2 to start downloading until file1 is > finished downloading. For example, if I were to execute get file1.tar, > and get file2.tar, I want get file2.tar to be executed only after get > file1.tar is done. > > I see that lftp has a queue command. Does anyone know if this would > work the way I expect? What I mean is if I execute: > > queue get file1.tar > queue get file2.tar > > in lftp, would that in fact wait to download file2.tar until the > download of file1.tar was complete? > > If the queue command in lftp doesn't work this way, then is there > another command that would do what I want? If lftp can't do what I > want, then can ncftp do that? If so, then how? I have looked through > the ncftp man page as well, and this doesn't seem to be doable in > ncftp. If neither lftp or ncftp can do what I want, then is there > another ftp client for gnu/linux that can? > > Just to clarify, I don't want to time-schedule the downloads, I simply > want them to happen sequentially one after another, in a specific > order, (I.E. file2.tar can download right after file1.tar, but it > can't start downloading while file1.tar is still being downloaded). > > On another note, does anyone know for sure if put in lftp or ncftp > will retry an upload until it successfully completes, if the upload > keeps being interrupted, say due to network issues? I'm fairly sure the > answer here for both programs is yes, but I wanted to make > certain. Thanks in advance. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGf2AO7s9z/XlyUyARAgA1AKDdu8Li7khgpV4H0rRh424xjude3ACdFnRw > Tg/Zd+5f0BiU2MmlslaaXWk= > =QDyq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light... CIRCLE AREA = _pi * r ^ 2
