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Old 08-29-2010
curl ftp script
Hello - I'm a novice, so apologies if this is a stupid/answered question.

I'm operating on a mac, and I'm using ftp to transfer files to my computer. The files have atypical names, although I have a list of them, addresses included. Is there a way to automate this using curl?

That is to write a script with curl that does 1. ftp to a password-protected account, 2. read in list of files, 3. get the files. I've spent a few hours reading the curl man page and experimenting, but I'm just as lost as a few hours ago. I'm copying over hundreds of files...

Thanks in advance.
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Old 08-31-2010
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Old 09-01-2010
Could you post the format of the file list you have, and maybe what you've tried so far? Personally, I'd say this sounds more like a job for wget than curl, but I might be wrong.
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Old 09-03-2010
The file list is a matlab variable. I'm very new to shell. Really, I just tried to use the curl man page and got lost; I don't remember what I did.

Thanks for suggesting wget. It looks much better. I'll try it. Thanks again.
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