Re: BUG: mirror creates locally directories that aren't supposed to be needed/files downloaded

On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

>
> remote server contains
> /somedir/ble.txt
> /otherdir/crap.txt
> /another/ble.txt
>
> mirror -c -i '.*ble.*'
>
> creates locally all three dirs which doesn't make sense. I would consider this
> to be a bug. IMO only somedir and anotherdir should be created as only these
> two contain files matching regexp.
>
> lftp 4.0.4
>
> -- 
> Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
> arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
>

I have seen this as well, it should only create a directory if the files 
it is downloading matches the regexp.

Instead, when you mirror and use an include regexp for '^.*txt$' for 
example it will create a directory locally for all of the the directories 
it traverses, rather than just mirroring the ones with actual text files 
inside them.

Justin.