From: Giampaolo Rodola' <gnewsg@...>
Date: 2009-04-26T04:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: net/ftp

On 24 Apr, 21:45, Ben Lovell <benjamin.lov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Joe Gutierrez <jgutier...@inc21.com> wrote:
> > There's a method in Ruby's net/ftp library called list/ls. Does anyone have
> > a list (or can someone point me to a place that has a list) of all possible
> > arguments that you can pass to ls?
> > --
> > Joseph Gutierrez
>
> You can pass anything you want as it isn't checked. I don't think the FTP
> protocol actually specifies any arguments for LIST/LS. If you're asking
> which arguments are going to actually produce a meaningful result, I'm not
> sure where to point you.
>
> Regards,
> Ben

FTP's LIST, NLST, MLSD and MLST commands accept an argument which
represents the *path*.
If you send something like "LIST foo" the content of the directory
"foo" will be returned.


--- Giampaolo
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