ftp script in expect

[Ron Peterson]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, mike ledoux wrote:

> On Wed, 19 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.

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