Hi people,

I have a litle question how I can download files from un file called "X". In file "X" I have the name for many files and need download with mget the files that are listing in "X".

I tried with:

mget X
mget !cat X
mget !X

Thanks for the help!!!

You don't provide any details (version/distro of Linux, which FTP server and client, etc.), so its hard to say. If you're asking how to script this, you can write a bash/expect script that loops through your input file, and gets them one at a time. You *REALLY* shouldn't be using FTP anyway, as it's slow and insecure. If you use SCP, you can simply do a keyswap with your remote host, and type in
...and it's done.

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What's an "un file"?

The rest of your question also is unclear.

Is X a file which describes other files?

As a pure guess, how about you get X, and then parse X to get the rest of the files.

Further, it's worth looking at scp as well as the -r option.

mget for FTP is only something you can use with a wildcard, like "mget *" or "mget *.jpg"

You can read my bash blog, (link in my signature) for some bash tips. A primary point I make is that if you can type it, you can script it. So, figure out what to type to accomplish this and then script it. We can help you with improving the efficiency of a script once you show us on. If you don't now how to script much at all, then please start a bit before attempting something more complex.

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What is in file X?
If I remember correctly* mget will accept a space-delimited list of file, as:
If the file has such a list, then should work.

*As TBOne said, FTP is no longer recommended, and I don't use it anymore, or even have it installed, so I can't do:
to confirm my memory.

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In file X is the list for all files in a directory

Ok, so back to "write a script to loop through that, and get the files". What have you done so far? And as we've said, consider scp with the usage mentioned.

Yeah. We didn't need you to repeat that...

I was asking you to show us what's in the file.

Is it one file per line? Then write a script per TB0ne's suggestion...forget mget. (or use scp...)