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From: xphyhofu%DDATHD21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Joachim Holzfuss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: How to make ftp interact with sh-commands?
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Date: 23 Jul 90 22:12:09 GMT
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Hi, is there any wizard out there being able
to shed some light on this?

I have to ftp files automatically from a directory,that grows
permanently.
Wat I did was:
ftp> mget file.*
ftp> mdelete file.*
with the result, that files ariving between both calls get
deleted by mdelete.

Now there is
ftp> ls file.* inlist
which I could use, but I can't do:
ftp> mget "/bin/cat inlist"      (works for ls file.* "more" )
or something like (using a macdef)
ftp> $transfer file.*           (no globbing possible)

Seems like ftp doesn't like me. Any good ideas?


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