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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\*