[Gllug] Find in FTP ?

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Tue 12 Nov, Jason Clifford bloviated thus:

> Alterntively you could write a script that connects and recursively grabs 
> a listing so you can search that listing locally. Maybe one of the mirror 
> scripts already has something like this available.

If it's a public FTP site, try archie (if that still exists) which was
a search engine for FTP back in the dim dark primordial ooze of the
net pre-web.  When men were men and routers were nervous.

Alternately, you could probably get archie to run yourself...

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