looking for "wget"-like utility with "find"-like search

[Jeff Kinz]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:43:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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>   is there a combination search/download utility i can use to both
> find a given file at a remote repository (using a recursive search),
> and download that file once i find it?
> 
>   is there a standard utility that can do this?  i've poked around
> variations of ftp, wget and rsync and haven't seen anything that will
> solve the problem.

There is a utility/language called "curl" which might do what you want.

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/features.html



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