Shell Command and cURL

[Mark Schonewille]

It doesn't make sense to create a list of 140000-something files and try 
to paste it somewhere. Instead, write a shell script that gets the file 
list and download all files in the list.

Your script might look like this:

#!/bin/bash
$ curl -s ftp://user:pass@IP/path/to/folder/ | \
     grep -e '^-' | awk '{ print $9 }' | \
         while read f; do \
             curl -O ftp://user:pass@IP/path/to/folder/$f; \
         done

Save the script in a text file and do a chmod 755 on it to make an 
executable file. Now let LiveCode launch the executable file. I think 
the files will be downloaded to the defaultFolder or perhaps to the 
location of the executable file .

If this is too much trouble, you might also save your current shell 
command to a file and have LiveCode launch it.

Kind regards,

Mark Schonewille
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Op 22-Nov-16 om 23:29 schreef Gregory Lypny:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have never used LiveCode’s Shell command, and I was hoping that someone on the forum might be able to give me an example of how to use it with cURL to download a list of files from an FTP site. I have been using cURL to download many files at a time from a given directory by pasting the code into Terminal in OS X. The problem is that Terminal cannot handle a command that is too long. This limits me to pasting no more than about 500 file paths at a time, but I need to download about 145,000 files. That’s a fair bit of manual pasting. So if someone could give me an example of using the Shell command with cURL, I’d be much obliged.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Gregory
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