How to download files matching pattern from FTP using CURL or WGET?


 
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Old 09-17-2013
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Originally Posted by bakunin
Still, this is a very clever idea of Smiling Dragon. I filed it away immediately in my "all-things-interesting-to-know"-notes
I am immensly flattered! Usually it's me copying your stuff Smilie
 
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CURLOPT_APPEND(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options						 CURLOPT_APPEND(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_APPEND - enable appending to the remote file SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append); DESCRIPTION
A long parameter set to 1 tells the library to append to the remote file instead of overwrite it. This is only useful when uploading to an FTP site. DEFAULT
0 (disabled) PROTOCOLS
FTP EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_APPEND, 1L); curl_easy_perform(curl); } AVAILABILITY
This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4 RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY(3), CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3), libcurl 7.54.0 March 06, 2016 CURLOPT_APPEND(3)