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Subject:	Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:05:40 +0200
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Richard Ivarson schrieb:
[..]
>  A) *wget*
> Fetching the files with wget works:
>  wget --user=NAME --password=PASS 
> https://webdavserver.com/folder/fileAA.txt
> 
> I've seen two handicaps:
> 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the 
> script
[..]
>  curl --user NAME:PASSWORD
> https://webdavserver.com/folder/{fileAA,fileBB,fileCC,fileDD,fileEE,}.txt 
> -O -O -O -O -O

... I forgot to mention: In contrast to A)1) with curl you can ommit the 
":PASSWORD" in the script. The curl then nicely asks for it at runtime.


-ric


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