wget any version of a file?
 

i am writing a script that will automatically install a bunch of packages from a web server. packages will be updated, but i want to have the script "know" to download a file. for example, if glibc is updated on the server, the filename will be glibc-2.3.2-i486-1.tgz i don't want to haveto update the script or send a huge command line argument to install. how do i tell wget to get a glibc*.tgz file?

If you wget from an ftp server, it can glob the *. If you wget an http server, it can't.

wget ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/download/glibc*.tgz