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Re: URL "Wild Card"?

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:29:34 -0700

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:47:05AM -0700, KNS Information Services wrote:
> Is there a way to get only files in a directory that include given characters
> but exclude others? For example, can one request something like this:
>
> http://www.foo.com/directory1/*xxx.html
>
> so that only files ending in xxx.html would be transferred?

curl doesn't support that directly--it's file globbing is pretty limited.
But you can easily do that using a for loop, find, or xargs, as discussed
here a few days ago.

>>> Dan

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Received on 2007-10-16