Can lftp follow symbolic directories?

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lftp can get the files which symbolic links point to, but can it get these files if they are in directories represented by symbolic links? For example, I am looking to get files at

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/bacteria/Acinetobacter_nosocomialis/all_assembly_versions/GCA_000162375.2_Acin_sp_RUH2624_V1/

where /GCA_000162375.2_Acin_sp_RUH2624_V1/ is a symbolic link to a directory.

I tried adding set ftp:list-options "-La" to ~/.lftprc, ~.lftp/rc, and /etc/lftp.conf.

This is the command I am using:

lftp -c 'open -e "mirror -c -p --no-empty-dirs -I *.gz /genomes/genbank/bacteria/Acinetobacter_nosocomialis/ ~/ncbi_bacteria_mirror" ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov'

This command DOES work on ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/bacteria/Pseudomonas_sp._URMO17WK12_I11/all_assembly_versions/

where /all_assembly_versions/ is not a symbolic link. It does not however recursively follow the symbolically linked directories contained within and get the files from those directories, which I would like for it to do if possible.

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2 Answers

I am not sure I understand the question, and the answer is hidden in it: the -L flag is what you want.

Quoting lftp's man page:

-L, --dereference download symbolic links as files

That's really it!

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