Rsync

[Les Mikesell]

Paul Ward wrote:
> cheers guys for your help.
> 
> To clarify the problem I have is at work one of our departments
> regularly ask me to download files from one of their suppliers. I was
> thinking that rather than do this when asked I could use a tool like
> rsync to download any new files and then notify me.
> 
> Rsync works great for me at home when syncing a repo through ftp so my
> my first thought was can it do a similar job on a secure ftp site that
> uses a password and user name.

Rsync requires either a special setup or a user login that works with 
ssh on the remote side.  You may or may not be able to arrange that.

> In light of this is it possible to log in to a ftp site using the
> standard ftp tool and do a directory listing then exit whilst logging
> the session to a file eg channel 1> ftp_output (Not sure about my
> syntax on this) then use diff or grep to match any differences between
> my last dir, and download the new files?
> 
> Any thoughts?

wget has options to mirror directories and only download newer files 
that might work for you.

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