for gavcloud

lst

[bash] brennen@inertia 23:38:02 ~/fragments/xargs-alias (master m0/u0)  $ ls
example_selection  files.lftp  lst.sh
[bash] brennen@inertia 23:38:06 ~/fragments/xargs-alias (master m0/u0)  $ cat example_selection 
Datach'i - Bonus - 01 Aldebaran.mp3
Datach'i - Bonus - 02 Something.mp3
[bash] brennen@inertia 23:38:08 ~/fragments/xargs-alias (master m0/u0)  $ cat lst.sh 
function lst {
  echo -n '' > files.lftp
  sed "s/'/\\\'/" example_selection | while read -r fname; do
    printf "put '%s'\n" "$fname" >> files.lftp
  done
}
[bash] brennen@inertia 23:38:11 ~/fragments/xargs-alias (master m0/u0)  $ source lst.sh
[bash] brennen@inertia 23:38:13 ~/fragments/xargs-alias (master m0/u0)  $ lst
[bash] brennen@inertia 23:38:15 ~/fragments/xargs-alias (master m0/u0)  $ cat files.lftp 
put 'Datach\'i - Bonus - 01 Aldebaran.mp3'
put 'Datach\'i - Bonus - 02 Something.mp3'

thanks a lot for doing this. I am going to study it and see if I can get it to work on my system. right now the lst alias is being loaded from .lftprc I wonder if I can just put the shell script into the same rc file