On 06/11/2015 12:59 AM, Jonathan Barber wrote:
> On 11 June 2015 at 07:07, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/10/2015 09:47 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         This is not what Firefox shows!
>
>         $ curl --list-only
>         ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.2.1/win32
>
>
> If you include a terminal "/", then you get the expected output. If you
> increase the verbosity level on the curl command:
> curl -v -list-only ...
>
> then you can see that curl connects to the ftp server and changes
> directory upto "2.2.1" but no further, so I assume that without the "/"
> at the end curl doesn't consider "win32" to be a directory and ignores
> it for the purpose of the --list-only command.
>
> I presume the browsers are noticing that "win32" is a directory and are
> changing into the directory before doing the listing.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>         vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz.md5
>         macosx
>         win32
>         vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz.sha1
>         vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz.sha256
>         vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz
>         win64
>         vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz.asc
>
>
>         It should look like:
>
>         $ curl --list-only
>         ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.2.1/win32/win32
>
>         vlc-2.2.1-win32.xpi
>         vlc-2.2.1-win32.xpi.sha256
>         vlc-2.2.1-win32.7z.md5
>         vlc-2.2.1-win32.xpi.asc
>         vlc-2.2.1-win32.xpi.md5
>         ...
>
>
>         And I can get that by repeating the win32:
>
>         curl --list-only
>         ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.2.1/win32/win32
>
>         But that messes up my script.
>
>         wget does the same thing.
>
>         What the heck ????
>
>         -T
>
>
>     I figured out a work around for this, but I would still
>     like to know why this is happening



Hi Jonathan,

That was it.  Mumble, mumble.  It was about to drive me crazy.

Thank you for helping me with this,

-T

$ curl --silent --list-only 
ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.2.1/win32/ | grep -i ".exe"

vlc-2.2.1-win32.exe.sha256
vlc-2.2.1-win32.exe.asc
vlc-2.2.1-win32.exe
vlc-2.2.1-win32.exe.sha1
vlc-2.2.1-win32.exe.md5