On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:43:29PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there a combination search/download utility i can use to both > find a given file at a remote repository (using a recursive search), > and download that file once i find it? > > is there a standard utility that can do this? i've poked around > variations of ftp, wget and rsync and haven't seen anything that will > solve the problem. There is a utility/language called "curl" which might do what you want. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/features.html -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ <a href=http://kinz.org>Kinz</a> http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~