[Gllug] Find in FTP ?

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 12:58, Walid Shaari wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 12:46, George Saxby wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     If I ftp to a site is it possible to do a site search for a particular file name? If so how?
> 
> try runing help/man in your favorite ftp client !
> 
> The only facility I have seen is ls which only lists files in the remote
> host

Some (but few public facing) sites support remote invocation of certain
commands. I've had ftp sites where you can do "site exec locate foo",
and it'll run locate for you.

Mike.


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