Downloading all the files in a directory with cURL

Question

I am using cURL to try to download all files in a certain directory.

here's what my list of files looks like:

I have tried to do in bash script: iiumlabs.[].csv.pgp and iiumlabs* and I guess curl is not big on wildcards.

curl -u login:pass ftp.myftpsite.com/iiumlabs* -O

question: how do i download this directory of files using cURL?

Answer 1

If you're not bound to curl, you might want to use wget in recursive mode but restricting it to one level of recursion, try the following;

wget --no-verbose --no-parent --recursive --level=1\
--no-directories --user=login --password=pass ftp://ftp.myftpsite.com/

• --no-parent : Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively.
• --level=depth : Specify recursion maximum depth level depth. The default maximum depth is five layers.
• --no-directories : Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively.