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There is a script (bsh) running in a AIX 7.1 machine. The script is to download some files via FTP from another machine. I need to stop it later because some guy need to have maintenace over the machine, even if the script is not finished.

So I would like to know, if I re-run the script later, can I configure the ftp client to skip the file if a local copy already exist and is identical to the remote one?

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Short answer no.

FTP is a blunt tool. Use wget which does provide this functionality and can pull files from an FTP server.

An even better option is to use rsync (over ssh).

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