It would be nice if some examples would be added to documentation for the extended regular expressions (include and exclude options), just to show people how to build standard commands (like: download all files except the "/Whitney_Houston/" directory; or get all mp3 files except ones containing the string "Britney_Spears").
IMHO, regular expressions are sort of overkill for the average user. Most of the time, all that people want is "get files like /dir/*.mp3" or something like that; you know, shell-like matching patterns. While lftp is very featureful, and is very good for advanced users (and i simply love it for that), it kind of ignores the Joe Average guys. ;-) I've seen people preferring wget (which is not so featureful) just because lftp was too complex for them, and the only reason for that were the regular expressions. Maybe an option to "mirror" and other commands to use shell-like pattern matching instead of full-blown regular expressions? After all, things like *.mp3 or /dir/* or /*/*.jpg are what's needed in 90% of cases. -- Florin Andrei The ability to remember useless stuff is inversely related to the useful knowledge in one's head.
