Gregory Lypny wrote:
> I have never used LiveCode’s Shell command, and I was hoping that
> someone on the forum might be able to give me an example of how to
> use it with cURL to download a list of files from an FTP site. I have
> been using cURL to download many files at a time from a given
> directory by pasting the code into Terminal in OS X. The problem is
> that Terminal cannot handle a command that is too long. This limits
> me to pasting no more than about 500 file paths at a time, but I need
> to download about 145,000 files. That’s a fair bit of manual pasting.
> So if someone could give me an example of using the Shell command
> with cURL, I’d be much obliged.
Why not use libURL? If you pass it a valid folder path ending in "/"
it'll return the list of files there.
rsync may be faster for that; see the "--list-only" flag, e.g.:
rsync --list-only username@servername:/directoryname/
And if you need to download those files rsync will definitely be much
faster.
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