Sun Microsystems MEDIACENTER 2.1 - Manual (Page 100)

6-6 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997
All ftp commands except rename , when used with the Sun MediaCenter FTP
daemon, accept the asterisk ( * ) as a wildcard character. When using the Solaris FTP
client, you must use a backslash to escape the asterisk. Otherwise, the shell
interprets the asterisk to mean all files in the current working directory. Other FTP
clients, such as one you might use on a Wintel PC, might not have this requirement.
Note – The wildcard asterisk, as used with the Sun MediaCenter FTP daemon, has a
different meaning from when you use the asterisk without the smc: keyword. As
used with the Sun MediaCenter FTP daemon, the asterisk means “all of the titles on
the server” or, with
mput , “all of the titles in the current directory.” You can use the
asterisk only by itself, not as a substitute for a piece of a string. For example, the
following is valid syntax:
The example above, returns the names of all titles on the server. The following is not
valid syntax:
In the example above, the asterisk does not allow you to search on all titles that
begin with the string “Bat”.
ftp> dir smc:title=\*
ftp> dir smc:title=Bat\*