From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T20:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: FTP - Multiple file downloads

On Apr 14, 4:55 am, Idealone Ideally <sheka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have written ftp code which will download a single file from the
> Server using the below code:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'net/ftp'
> require 'fileutils'
>
> URL = 'IP address'
> username = 'test'
> passwd = "test"
> filename = "file1"
> directory = '/home/test/'
> localfile = 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\User1\\Desktop\\file1'
> ftp=Net::FTP.new
> ftp.connect(URL,21)
> ftp.login(username,passwd)
> ftp.chdir(directory)
> ftp.getbinaryfile(filename,localfile)
> ftp.close
>
> But what i am really looking for is:
> 1) Download multiple files from a given directory.
> 2) Download files by giving wild characters (eg: *.xls or *.txt)
>
> Please let me know if there is a better way or easier way to achieve
> these tasks.

Not all that familiar with the library, but I do recall there is a
list method that accepts wildcards. Try something like this:

files = ftp.list('*.xls')
files.each do |filename|
  ftp.getbinaryfile(filename, filename)
end

-- Mark