On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Jeff Seeman wrote:
> I have a curl command string in Solaris that successfully downloads files from
> an MVS server:
>
> curl -k --ftp-ssl-reqd -u irseem:levi12 --use-ascii -Q 'site recfm=fb' -O
> --remote-name "ftp://mvssy5.teale.ca.gov:2121/\'IR.WCEDEX.EDEX3.REC0*.DT*.TM*\'
> "
>
> Now I want to be able to list the same files on the MVS server without actually
> downloading them. I tried the following without success:
>
> curl -k --ftp-ssl-reqd -u irseem:levi12 --use-ascii -Q 'site recfm=fb' "ftp://
> mvssy5.teale.ca.gov/2121" -X 'ls '\'*IR.WCEDEX.EDEX3.REC0*.DT*.TM*\''
>
> When I try executing that command string I get this error:
>
> /space/home/edexdb/curl> ./get_test.sh
> ./get_test.sh: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> ./get_test.sh: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> Any suggestions? Thank you.

The error message is pretty self-explanatory--you have three unescaped single
quote characters after the -X, an odd number. But are you sure that you want
that -X command there? That's not a standard FTP command. And the second
command doesn't specify a port number, whereas the first does.

>>> Dan

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