> You could parse the output of lftp or ncftpls in long-listing mode:

Or indeed use rsync -l
$ rsync -l rsync://rsync.iana.org/tz/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx          27 2012/08/03 05:28:07 tzdata-latest.tar.gz -> releases/tzdata2012e.tar.gz

Thanks for your help

Neil Masson

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