On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > 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 dang, that seems to do it. i never noticed the "-A" option that makes this work. thanks loads. rday
