ftp script in expect

[mwl+blu at alumni.unh.edu (mike ledoux)]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Ron Peterson wrote:

>> >What with the constant barrage of new and improved virii, I thought I'd
>> >make it easier to help my Windows friends.  So I wrote this little expect
>> >script.  Problem is, it stops downloading and quits after one file.
>> >
>> >(?)
>> >
>> >spawn ftp ftp.nai.com
>> >expect "Name*:"
>> >send "anonymous\r"
>> >expect "Password:"
>> >send "devnull at pagoda.mtholyoke.edu\r"
>> >expect "ftp>"
>> >send "cd pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x\r"
>> >expect "ftp>"
>> >send "bin\r"
>> >expect "ftp>"
>> >send "prompt\r"
>> >expect "ftp>"
>> >send "mget *\r"
>> >expect "ftp>"
>> >send "quit"
>>
>> This looks like a job for 'wget'.  Something like:
>>
>> 	wget -r -b -c ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x/
>>
>> should do the trick.
>
>Yeah.  I tried wget - actually tried that first.  It won't retrieve
>anything.

Strange, I just tried the above command (well, without the -b), and
retrieved several .upd files before I killed the transfer...

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