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

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

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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