How to get the FTP server list of directories？

[fulvyou]

How to get the FTP server list of directories？help me， thank you！

curl/libcurl version 7.49.1

iOS

[jay]

This is an issue tracker, for questions about curl or libcurl ask on the respective mailing list.

curl does not have a parser to get only the directories, you will have to parse them out. If your FTP server supports the standardized machine listing format (FTP command MLSD) you can look for type=dir; and the directory name is everything after the first space until the end of the line. If your FTP server does not support the machine listing format then I'm pretty sure you have to resort to LIST and work with whatever format you're given... for example the lines may start with permissions like drwxrwxr-x and end with the directory name which comes after a timestamp.

curl -s ftp.funet.fi/pub/ -X MLSD | perl -lne 'print if s/(?:^|;)type=dir;[^ ]+ (.*)$/$1/'
curl -s ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ | perl -lne 'print if s/^d[-rwx]{9}(?: +[^ ]+){7} (.*)$/$1/'

[snikulov]

@jay can be published in FAQ

[jay]

@snikulov Good idea. Thanks, landed in f9eed59.