From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 15:28:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381B137B401; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBD243F3F; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C257466B9B; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 988DDB28; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:28:02 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Yar Tikhiy Message-ID: <20030606222802.GA49534@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030214233406.GA3814@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030214233749.GB3888@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030215144637.GA45693@comp.chem.msu.su> <20030606131021.GA64498@comp.chem.msu.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030606131021.GA64498@comp.chem.msu.su> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: FTP and command-line multiple downloads X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:28:06 -0000 --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:10:21PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > As far as I can see, this is a client-side problem of CURRENT's > > ftp(1). FreeBSD ftp(1) was completely replaced with "lukemftp," > > ftp client from NetBSD, in CURRENT a year ago. The commit message > > was promising: > >=20 > > ...Lukemftp supports most of the previous features of FreeBSD > > ftp, but has been better maintained and includes new features. > >=20 > > Unfortunately, this particular feature doesn't fall into that most; > > "lukemftp" can't seem to detect a glob pattern on the command line. >=20 > I must admit that I overlooked this feature in lukemftp. In fact, > lukemftp can download multiple files specified as a wildcard via ftp. > However, lukemftp accepts wildcards only in the "classic" ftp file > specification, i.e., host:path/file, and not in URLs. >=20 > Do you think the ability to use command-line wildcards should be > extended to URLs as well? Luke Mewburn may be convinced to do that > in his ftp client. Technically, the task is as easy as removing a > single logical subexpression from an "if" statement. lukem doesn't want to change it..I suppose the difference and workaround should be documented in the manpage. I'm happy with the workaround. Kris --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+4RVyWry0BWjoQKURAu88AJ0dFDsOHLN3Dp+kWchCqAVf+BIn0ACg+fdu v1gS8X4JdseTGreF594E6sw= =/TpJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--