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Re: beginers help needed

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:23:15 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Peter Gardner wrote:

> I want to be able to connect to an ftp site and download a file ( I will not
> know what it is called)
>
> Can this be done using the command curl?

curl can't download a file based on wildcards or anything so I suggest you
then possibly first get a directory listing to learn the file's name and then
request the full URL.

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Received on 2007-04-18