# Re: FTP#mget, FTP#mput

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ftp-mget-ftp-mput/94668>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ftp-mget-ftp-mput/94668 "2006-05-10T18:08:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ftp-mget-ftp-mput/94668/1 "2006-05-10T18:08:52Z")

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> > 
> 
> this does something like mput

I guess I’m not sure how this is different that just doing something  
like this:

module Net  
class FTP  
def mput(pattern, &block)  
Dir[pattern].each{ |file| put(file, &block) }  
end

```
  def mget(pattern, &block)
     Dir[pattern].each{ |file| get(file, &block) }
  end

```

end  
end

I haven’t test that, but if it looks alright perhaps I’ll submit it as a  
patch to -core.

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ftp-mget-ftp-mput/94668/2 "2006-05-10T18:18:01Z")

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On Thu, 11 May 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> > > 
> > 
> > this does something like mput  
> > end
> 
> ```
> def mget(pattern, &block)
> Dir[pattern].each{ |file| get(file, &block) }
> end
> 
> ```

Dir[pattern] is on the **client**. globbing for mget most occur against  
a  
listing from the **server**.

eg.

```
 mget foo*

```

means get all files from the server that match foo\* - the only way to  
do  
this is to combine an ftp.list with fnmatch.

regards.

-a

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ftp-mget-ftp-mput/94668/3 "2006-05-10T18:21:08Z")

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On May 10, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> > > 
> > 
> > this does something like mput  
> > end
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan

I’m not sure but I think mget’s pattern is supposed to apply on the  
server, not the local system. I could be wrong though.