FTP diff via script?

[Ed Greshko]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> > On 6/8/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> >> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> >> > Can anyone suggest how I would go about downloading an entire FTP
>> tree
>> >> > (the easy part) then basically making diffs of it every day?
>> >> >
>> >> > I can do the scripting, just not sure what tools are out there, or
>> >> > what search terms to use.
>> >>
>> >> Why don't you just use "rsync"?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Wasn't aware that rsync supported FTP, will have to checkup on that.
>>
>> I didn't say it supported FTP....  It is a transfer mechanism on to
>> itself.  But, it does what I think you are asking.  It will only
>> transfer the bits that have changed.
>>
> 
> Well thanks, but the data to be transfered is only accessible to me
> via ftp....sadly.

You can look at wget.  It has a "mirror" option....

--mirror
           Turn on options suitable for mirroring.  This option turns on
recur-sion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps
FTP directory listings.  It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf
--no-remove-listing.



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