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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:19:39 -0500
From: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple script ?
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You could also install the ncftp3 package, as that has excellent scripting
capabilities with ncfptget.

But, given the goodness of FreeBSD, you may do as you wish as there is
more than one way to do it.

- Scott

Joe & Fhe Barbish(barbish@a1poweruser.com)@2002.02.25 11:04:16 +0000:
> Sure it would be, I would not have to install the portupgrade port which
> uses ruby a dependent port. That sure is a lot of disk space just to replace
> one FTP command.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott M. Nolde [mailto:scott@smnolde.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:48 AM
> To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
> Cc: FBSDQ
> Subject: Re: Simple script ?
> 
> Would it be any different than pkg_fetch(1)?
> 
> 
> Joe & Fhe Barbish(barbish@a1poweruser.com)@2002.02.25 09:35:19 +0000:
> > I have the following script that I call getpackage.
> > I want to change it so I can say getpackage misc/ytree-1.74.tgz
> > or any other directory/file name and it will be substituted in the ftp
> > command.
> >
> > How do I do this?
> > #! /bin/sh
> >
> > ftp -a -v
> >
> ftp5.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/packages/misc/ytree-
> > 1.74.tgz
> >
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