On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Owen Watson wrote:

> Is there any way of including invisible files (eg .htaccess) in ftp
> directory listings?
>
> I've looked thru the docs and done a mailing list search; I'm a bit
> surprised this topic hasn't come up before.

curl simply asks the FTP server for a file listing. You can provide your own
list command with -X:

  curl -l -X "ls -a" ftp://hosttolist.com/directory/

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