I have a problem similar to this thread I found on the archives:

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive/0126.html

except I need to use ftp to retrieve these files. The problem is that
there is a string of six random numbers attached to the end of each
file. Wildcards don't seem to work, but I can use braces to get the
process going. I use a --url command like this to make that work:

--url ftp://<ip
address>/Results/20061227[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].asc

That means I have to run through a million (minus one) file
combinations to pick up all the files for that day. It's taking about
ten minutes to run through a thousand files. Is there a way in curl 7.15
(or later; I'd be willing to upgrade) to either do a mget command or
just return a directory listing? If I can get a dir or ls output, I can
script a sed to grab the filenames out and loop the curl command to pick
up all the files I need.

Thanks,
Nick
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