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: > > > > ...Lukemftp supports most of the previous features of FreeBSD > > ftp, but has been better maintained and includes new features. > > > > Unfortunately, this particular feature doesn't fall into that most; > > "lukemftp" can't seem to detect a glob pattern on the command line. > > 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. > > 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
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