From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-11T01:15:41+09:00
Subject: Re: FTP#mget, FTP#mput

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ara.t.howard@noaa.gov [mailto:ara.t.howard@noaa.gov]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:29 PM
>> To: ruby-talk ML
>> Subject: Re: FTP#mget, FTP#mput
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a method in Net::FTP that corresponds to ftp's
>> mget and mput
>>> functions?
>>>
>>> If not, is there any chance of adding this to ftp.rb?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
>> this does something like mput
>
> <snip>
>
> I guess I'm not sure how this is different that just doing something
> like this:
>
> module Net
>   class FTP
>      def mput(pattern, &block)
>         Dir[pattern].each{ |file| put(file, &block) }
>      end
>
>      def mget(pattern, &block)
>         Dir[pattern].each{ |file| get(file, &block) }
>      end

Dir[pattern] is on the __client__.  globbing for mget most occur against a
listing from the __server__.

   eg.

     mget foo*

   means get all files from the server that match foo* - the only way to do
   this is to combine an ftp.list with fnmatch.

regards.

-a
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