On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:53:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My unchanged crontask now started, with version 2.6.2, downloading stuff
> which I didn't expect and filled up disk space nicely (not to mention
> wasted, albeit free, bandwith). :-)
> 
> The version I had before, where it worked, was between 2.4.0 and 2.6.0, but,
> unfortunatelly, I am unable to be more precise.
> 
> Taking off end-of-line ($) makes it work again, but I suspect that that
> would also exclude downloading files that have the expression somewhere
> "inside" their (file)names.

Currently lftp appends a slash to directory names before matching. So if you
want to exclude a directory (with contents), then add a slash before $.

The change was introduced to make it possible to separate files and directories
in exclude/include patterns.

-- 
   Alexander.                      | http://www.yars.free.net/~lav/  

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