How could I use grep and ls in ftp client...
I mean if I want to find some specific file I could use,
ls -l | grep pattern
thanks.
jcyang.
How could I use grep and ls in ftp client...
I mean if I want to find some specific file I could use,
ls -l | grep pattern
With the usual Unix commandline interactive ftp, one approach is:
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> dir . foobar
output to local-file: foobar [anpqy?]? y
500 Unknown command
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,149,140,15,195,159)
150 Accepted data connection
11966 5.26 KB/s
226-Options: -a -l
226 156 matches total
ftp> !grep con foobar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 11050207 users 911007 Sep 13 2007 accu_pyconc.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 11050207 users 9805405 Mar 25 2009 pycon_abst.pdf
i.e., get the dir results into a local file first, then run grep locally. Incidentally, this lets you run multiple greps after paying for just one dir
data transfer;-).