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[sud_crow]

Is there any soft that i could use for these and several similar works:

 

i want to download all the source files from

 

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.4.../2.4.0/sources/

 

Yes. Gnome 2.4

 

but there are tar.gz AND .bz2 both versions of every pkg.

Then, what i want to do, is to use something to get the links to every (for example) file "*.bz2" and make a list (text file) with a link per line, to use wget to download them...

 

is there any soft able to do this or both things (select and download)

also, it would be good a windows version (friends with broadband not converted... YET!)

[Steve Scrimpshire]

How about this?

 

#!/usr/bin/perl



use Net::FTP::Common;



$common_cfg = { Host => 'ftp.gnome.org', 

     User => 'anonymous',

     Pass => 'me@here.there',

                          LocalDir => './',

     RemoteDir  => '/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.4/2.4.0/sources/'

     };





$ez = Net::FTP::Common->new($common_cfg, Debug => 1);

$ez->login or die "cant login: $@";





@file=$ez->grep(Grep => '[.]bz2');







foreach $file(@file){

print "$filen";

$ez->get(RemoteFile => "$file");

}

 

Of course, if you use it on a windows machine, you'll have to change the path for Perl in the she-bang.

[sud_crow]

Hi,

well, actually, my friends with windows wont have perl...

but i can make good use of it anyway...

one question, (a couple actually)

should i define Net::FTP::Common?? or is a command?

also, should i save this under something.sh or what?

 

 

Any other soft? win compatible?? or win only ??

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Oh. Sorry. This is a perl script. You save it as download.pl or whatever. It's designed to be used from the command line.

 

Net::FTP::Common is a perl module. Your friend can download perl for windows for free ( http://www.activestate.com/Products/Langua..._Distributions/ )and hopefully it will have that module already.

[Guest BooYah]

here's a cool way to do it from the command line:

 

 wget -O- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.4/2.4.0/sources/ | sed s'/2003.*..gz//'p > fileindex.html

 

You windblows friend is out of luck though.

 

[edited out an extra space typo]

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Yeah, I knew it could be done from the command line even simpler. Probably links can do it, too.

[sud_crow]

Hi,

 

 

BooYah, could you explain me a bit about that command line parameters??

(just curious ;))

 

Steve, does windows need anything else appart from Perl? (for that to run)

 

Thanks both!

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Just Perl and the Net::FTP::Common module from cpan.org, but Net::FTP::Common may come with Perl by default. Not sure about the ActiveState version, though.