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sada
sada

Reputation: 73

Download multiple FTP files like d*.txt in ruby

I need to connect to a ftp site and download a bunch of files( max 6) named as D*.txt. could you please help me code this in Ruby ? The following code just

ftp = Net::FTP::new("ftp_server_site")
ftp.login("user", "pwd")
ftp.chdir("/RemoteDir")
fileList= ftp.nlst
ftp.getbinaryfile(edi, edi)
ftp.close

Thanks

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4871

Answers (3)

Stefan Huska
Stefan Huska

Reputation: 547

Array of filenames in dir you can get by "nlst" method:

files = ftp.nlst('*.zip')

files.each do |file|
  puts file
end

#=> first.zip, second.zip, third.zip, ...

Upvotes: 6

kstevens715
kstevens715

Reputation: 760

That solution did not work for me, although it may depend on the FTP server. For me, ftp.list returns results similar to ls -l on Linux. I used the following regex to get just the filename of the first file returned by list:

ftp.list('D*.txt')[0][/.*(\d{2}):(\d{2})\s{1}(?<file>.+)$/,1]

Upvotes: 3

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 6840

The simplest way would be to loop through the list of files in fileList.

Here is an example (untested):

ftp = Net::FTP::new("ftp_server_site")
ftp.login("user", "pwd")
ftp.chdir("/RemoteDir")
fileList = ftp.list('D*.txt')
fileList.each do |file|
  ftp.gettextfile(file)
end
ftp.close

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 7

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