[clue] [TECH] Searching content using FTP

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Mar 14 19:08:37 MDT 2011


YES NOPE9 wrote:
> I have access to a number of files on aserver using FTP. Is there an app that will search each
> file for specific content ( either on the server or by fetching the file and searching )  ....
> and make a list of files containing the search string ?

FTP doesn't do that.  Archie does.  I expect that the 21st century way to do Archie is to run HTTP 
and let Google index it.

Dave


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