Robert P. J. Day wrote: [snip]
what would be nice would be to say, go to ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc, and recursively search for a file with a given name. if you find it, bring it back. (even better would be to allow wildcards, so i could say, go get "gcc-3.4.3.{tar.bz2,tar.gz,tgz}". whichever one you find first, grab it and that will do nicely.
Hmmm... Have you attempted something like:
wget -r -nd -A gcc-3.4.3.tar.gz ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc wget -r -nd -A gcc-4.0-20041205.tar.bz2 ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc
I don't know if wget supports extended globbing. If it does, something like '-A gcc-3.4.3.*(tar.bz2|tar.gz|tgz)' might just work (but it would download all three of them, probably not what you wanted). Maybe using @(tar.bz2|tar.gz|tgz) instead... not sure... play with it and see ;-)
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