Ftp set folder for file download only

Asked 3 years, 1 month ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 1k times. The FTP directory is updated with multiple new files at various times throughout the day. Improve this question. Martin Prikryl k 46 46 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Jasdeep Jasdeep 79 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Everyone wouldn't be showing wget, sftp, scp and rsync if ftp were up to the task. Oops sorry - no. If you're bound to the FTP protocol you can use lftp to do a recursive download of a directory tree. Old school solution to this problem. OK, thank you very much, but is there a way via FTP to do this? I was unaware of curl's FTP proclivity. I'll probably use it more often.

Show 1 more comment. I can change where it looks for files to download and where it downloads them too, however, when the script attempts to compare the two directories, it only looks at where the script is being executed from and not where I am attempting to place the files.

I was on my holidays! The script makes two connections to the ftp host. On the first pass, it builds a list of all files matching the findstr pattern. On the second pass, it downloads only those files that don't already exist on the local host. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Set the time in seconds that you want to wait for the connection to be established before the action fails.

The FTP connection to work with. This variable must have been previously specified in an Open FTP connection action.

If the file type is uncertain, or more than one is dowloaded, choose Auto to follow the transfer rules specified in options. Specify what to do if the file already exists.