ftp script in expect

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, mike ledoux wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Ron Peterson wrote:
>
> >> >What with the constant barrage of new and improved virii, I thought I'd
> >> >make it easier to help my Windows friends.  So I wrote this little expect
> >> >script.  Problem is, it stops downloading and quits after one file.
> >> >
> >> >(?)
> >> >
> >> >spawn ftp ftp.nai.com
> >> >expect "Name*:"
> >> >send "anonymous\r"
> >> >expect "Password:"
> >> >send "devnull at pagoda.mtholyoke.edu\r"
> >> >expect "ftp>"
> >> >send "cd pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x\r"
> >> >expect "ftp>"
> >> >send "bin\r"
> >> >expect "ftp>"
> >> >send "prompt\r"
> >> >expect "ftp>"
> >> >send "mget *\r"
> >> >expect "ftp>"
> >> >send "quit"
> >>
> >> This looks like a job for 'wget'.  Something like:
> >>
> >> 	wget -r -b -c ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x/
> >>
> >> should do the trick.
> >
> >Yeah.  I tried wget - actually tried that first.  It won't retrieve
> >anything.
>
> Strange, I just tried the above command (well, without the -b), and
> retrieved several .upd files before I killed the transfer...

I just upgraded my wget from 1.6 to 1.7.  Now it works.  I was getting
the error:

No such file `'.

which didn't look like a timeout...

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