From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 3:23: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2914F37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.netis.ru (gemini.yars.free.net [193.233.48.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABABC43F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lav@swing.yars.free.net) Received: from swing.yars.free.net (swing.netis.priv [10.0.0.88]) by gemini.netis.ru (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1QBM27W008776; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:22:02 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from lav@localhost) by swing.yars.free.net (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h1QBLxjj027016; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:21:59 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:21:59 +0300 From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" To: "Janine C.Buorditez" Cc: lftp@uniyar.ac.ru, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [lftp] How to make mirror follow symlinks? Message-ID: <20030226112159.GA26540@swing.yars.free.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Janine C.Buorditez" , lftp@uniyar.ac.ru, questions@freebsd.org References: <20030226102456.6ba049cf.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030226102456.6ba049cf.johann@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.2, required 5, AWL, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:24:56AM +0100, Janine C.Buorditez wrote: > Can somebody please tell me whether lftp is capable of mirroring symlinks? > > I'm inside a directory containing hundreds of other symlinked directories. > Now, I want to mirror all of that directory so I don't have to enter it and > manually mirror each and every symlink there is. If the ftp server supports LIST -L option, then do in lftp: set ftp:list-options "-La" BTW, beware of infinite recursion. If the symlinks are to files only, then `mirror -L' will work nicely. -- Alexander. | http://www.yars.free.net/~lav/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message