problem with downloading files

Question

[elisheva]

Hello everyone!
I have a problem with downloading files from ensembl.
I am trying to download some files using rsync command.
I have a text file of all the paths for all the file.
The problem is that I can't extract them.
Here is my shell script:

#!/bin/bash
while read line
do
echo $line
rsync -av $line 
done < path.txt

while path.txt is this txt file:

rsync://ftp.ensembl.org/ensembl/pub/release-89/fasta/ailuropoda_melanoleuca/cdna/Ailuropoda_melanoleuca.ailMel1.cdna.all.fa.gz ./
rsync://ftp.ensembl.org/ensembl/pub/release-89/fasta/anas_platyrhynchos/cdna/Anas_platyrhynchos.BGI_duck_1.0.cdna.all.fa.gz ./

of course there are much more paths.

I did all this according to ensemble instructions: http://www.ensembl.org/info/data/ftp/rsync.html
For one path it works quite well....
The problem is for more than one file...
Using tar or gunzip did not help.
Can someone solve this problem?
Thanks!!

[Magali_Ensembl]

Your example script works fine for me, is there an error message your are getting?

[elisheva]

I couldn't extract the files. But I changed it, so now the text file looks like this: rsync -av ..... path. for each line. and it worked fine.

Answer 1

[Emily]

Your ftp links should begin:

rsync://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-89/fasta/

[elisheva]

It doesn't work - I get an error when I run it...
on http://www.ensembl.org/info/data/ftp/rsync.html
It says to add the ensembl/