[PLUG] Bulk Downloads With wget

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, wes wrote:

> what is "the Atlanta response"?

   404 is the area code for telephones in Atlanta, GA.

> Unfortunately, wget only supports the use of wildcards over ftp, not http. I
> believe OSU's OSL does make things available via ftp, so you should be able
> to do that.
>
> ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/

   I thought so, too. Sigh. Nope:

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ ncftpget ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/*.tgz
ncftpget: Could not change directory: server said: Failed to change directory.

> Some may advocate curl, but I am not particularly familiar with that tool.
> It may be worth a glance at the man page to see if it will do what you
> want. I'm sure it might come in handy some day either way.

   I'll look at curl, wes.

Thanks,

Rich

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