[lug] Globs, tar and pipes (ftp question)

[John Starkey]

I'm trying to weed through roughly 40 gigs on an ftp server. Each dir that I want contains ABC at the end. The server allows tar'ing but not writing.  Anyone know a way to do this?

In the root dir I'm finding the dirs I want with:

ls [A-Z]*/*ABC 

I've tried:

mget [A-Z]*/*ABC/[a-z]*/

and

get [A-Z]*/*ABC/[a-z]*.tar

And many other variations. Is there a way to pipe them into tar and get? I'm getting to the point where any more experimentation would be rude.
 
wget is returning "error in server response, closing control connection" just after the port command. So I'm leaning towards ftp.... that comfort zone thing again.

TIA,

John

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