Re: [Sheflug] Reg expressions FTP

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 Sep 2003 3:41 pm, Chris J wrote:
> And Lo! The Great Prophet " Dawson, Alan" uttered these words of wisdom:
> > I can go mget *[A-Z]*  which matches everything with a capital  but how
> > can
> > i get the other files that are lower case?
>
> mget *[A-Za-z]*
>
> ?
>
> Chris...

I think this will still overwrite this stuff already sent.

How about

mget [a-z] [a-z][a-z] [a-z][a-z][a-z] [a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z] 

etc, up to the max length of filename you transfer

You will get file not founds for some but the others should match?


 Dave.


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