looking for "wget"-like utility with "find"-like search
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Mon Dec 6 20:15:28 UTC 2004
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[snip]
> what would be nice would be to say, go to
> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc, and recursively search for a file
> with a given name. if you find it, bring it back. (even better would
> be to allow wildcards, so i could say, go get
> "gcc-3.4.3.{tar.bz2,tar.gz,tgz}". whichever one you find first, grab
> it and that will do nicely.
Hmmm... Have you attempted something like:
wget -r -nd -A gcc-3.4.3.tar.gz ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc
wget -r -nd -A gcc-4.0-20041205.tar.bz2 ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc
I don't know if wget supports extended globbing. If it does, something
like '-A gcc-3.4.3.*(tar.bz2|tar.gz|tgz)' might just work (but it would
download all three of them, probably not what you wanted). Maybe using
@(tar.bz2|tar.gz|tgz) instead... not sure... play with it and see ;-)
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