From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 21:30:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D06116A480 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3105813C494 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so627688fka for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kS0+moloGTlTJNNO1fV7Jfy1Waoyw+lbOhcin07YFEz5+ARKGCoVmUZ617p6Q0aqGFJZIqQFzoFJeJPduKLmMdScoRiq7Clp6H8aNi2NEtdd5a851eoRlt15ozs8Z6aLMqrg4/3YTnqoOEnNYft4STTwaZ69t4RwiENZfn8ighU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RDAKYkwWrl08asephh2ETgpx+YeWan29OJJxUWuDKeiP95I6xJxF2NUP39IcRtHnwmSW+SpZzZkMMYgWOK/yinxM5d3aOCexg/kDYPRBQJEhsCT3PRItTdSH4Pb/SFfuZCw2ApZlJ1nTLLfNn5gO/NxLWKQP8+DsEnm9ZvZBK/Q= Received: by 10.82.182.1 with SMTP id e1mr4010547buf.1187904617071; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:30:16 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: fbsd2@a1poweruser.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: wildcard usage in fetch X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:30:19 -0000 On 21/08/07, fbsd2 wrote: > > > fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:password@my.pics.com/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* > > The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and > contains 00 through 99 as directory names. > The *.* means all files in this directory. > > When I execute this I get logged in but get file > not found or not available error message. > > Is wildcard usage not allowed in ftp? > > How would you suggest to accomplish downloading source file > directory structure and their contents? On an offhand guess, your shell is handling the wildcards. Have you tried escaping them? -- --