FTP listing using "libURLftpCommand"

[stephen barncard]

Thanks for responding, Dave.  I get it now. Ok so I have to apply some kind
of logic and recover the year.....(over the threshold)
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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2010/1/18 Dave Cragg <dave.cragg at lacscentre.co.uk>

>
> On 19 Jan 2010, at 00:45, stephen barncard wrote:
>
> > Thanks...this sort of works.....  the example needs to use the URL
> keyword
> > though
> >
> > put URL ("ftp://user:pass@host.com/directory/") into theListOfFiles
> >
> > this does list ok, similar listing to the HTTP method, however the dates
> in
> > the listing are not consistent.
> >
> > drwxr-x---   21 sbarncar 99           4096 Dec 31 03:03 .
> >
> > drwx--x--x   15 sbarncar sbarncar     4096 Jan 15 01:51 ..
> >
> > -rw-r--r--    1 sbarncar sbarncar        0 Dec 30 12:06 .htaccess
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 sbarncar sbarncar     4096 Jul 11  2009 .smileys
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x   12 sbarncar sbarncar     4096 Jun 20  2009 barncard
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 sbarncar sbarncar     4096 Dec 22 03:35 blasters
> >
> >
> > Some directories have the year, and some just have the month and day. Is
> > this just the way it is? The year is just not important?
>
> This is the standard FTP way. Similar to what the "ls -l" command returns
> on Unix-like systems. The year is not shown if the modification date is
> within the last six months. Instead the time is shown. Either way, "word 9
> of line x of whatever" will return the name of the file.
>
> libUrl uses the LIST command internally for ftp directory listings (or NLST
> if you do as Jan suggested). It returns exactly what the server returns.
>
> Cheers
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