multiple path containing wildcards do not work with mget or glob

[tolot27]

If I want to download multiple files containing wildcards with one mget command, some files are not found.

mget: /vol1/fastq/SRR699/009/SRR6997119/*.fastq.gz: no files found                           
/vol1/fastq/SRR699/008/SRR6997118/SRR6997118_2.fastq.gz' at 24275 (0%) 4.3K/s eta:8d6h [Receiving data]   

Using glob -- mget ... does not work either because it looks like glob only parses the first file argument of mget.

Even glob echo alone retrieves just the files of its first wildcard argument:

lftp -v -c "open ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk; glob echo /vol1/fastq/SRR699/008/SRR6997118/*.fastq.gz /vol1/fastq/SRR699/009/SRR6997119/*.fastq.gz"
/vol1/fastq/SRR699/008/SRR6997118/SRR6997118_1.fastq.gz /vol1/fastq/SRR699/008/SRR6997118/SRR6997118_2.fastq.gz

[qtv]

Does glob -f -- pget *.fastq.gz work for you? That is what I've always used with success. Not to say there isn't an issue with mget.

[tolot27]

pget accepts only one file parameter, mget multiple file parameters. If I use mget with just one wildcard parameter, it works, as pget do so. The problem here is two-fold (or two separate issues). glob seem to process only the first pattern and not multiple patterns. mget can deal with multiple wildcard file patterns but sometimes fail to resolve the wildcards.

[lavv17]

glob expands its all arguments but the first one, which is a command to execute after expansion.