09-12-2013
Provided the pattern you need is relativly simple (ie file globbing rather than full regex), you can pass wildcards via the FTP protocol.
For a vanilla commandline ftp, you'd want to turn off prompting (tpye 'prompt' until you see it's set to off), while you are at it, turn on hash ('hash') and check that your binary mode is correct for you ('bin' or 'asc' depending on if you want it to convert carriage returns/line feeds). Then use mget to specify your pattern.
mget is nifty in that it will do multiple gets but it can't do filename renaming/relocating on the fly so make sure you are sitting in the right directory ('lcd' before your run it).
curl and wget aren't really right for the task but you could possibly use a tool like that to first get the directory, then grep the resultant index for your files and feed that into a loop... but... yuck :/
That said, I've heard talk in the curl dev lists of adding support for ftp wildcards, so maybe recent versions do this (man curl and see how you go)
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