FTP get script wildcard
 

Hi guy's please can you help? I've written a ftp script that should log onto the ftp location and drag back any file that ends in a .dat extension, however I can't get the wildcard *.dat to work...

The script works fine if I put a full filename in however....I'm lost..

#!/bin/bash

remote=ftpadd
username=user
passwd=password
localdir=/local/dir/
remotedir=/remote/dir/

ftp -in <<EOF
open $remote
user $username $passwd
lcd $localdir
cd $remotedir
get *.dat
close
bye
EOF

Use mget instead of get.

cool, will that work with the * wildcard too?

Of course. Just try and find out! :)

thank you :D it worked a treat