I use the find command line utility nearly every day. It is amazing to
manipulate large directory hierarchy with files. Unfortunately, I have
missed the possibility to do like this: 
find ftp://ftp.sunet.se/ -type f -exec gnomevfs-copy {} . \;

gvfsfind solves the problem. The prefix gvfs since it is based on
gnome-vfs. The tool has a help that I hope can get you to start using
it. Just start it with the flag -h.  


Please note that you must access remote hosts anonymously or using
cryptographic keys.


Examples
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The first example prints all directories on the ftp-site:
 gvfsfind.py ftp://video.foo.org --type d --print 

To copy all files ending with .vob from the host skipper to the local host:
gvfsfind.py ssh://skipper/srv/movie --type f --name ".*\.vob" --exec "gnomevfs-copy %u ." 

Create all directories on the remote host skipper on the localhost:
gvfsfind ssh://skipper/ --type d --exec mkdir %d

Then copy all the files to the local host:
gvfsfind ssh://skipper/ --type f --exec gnomevfs-copy %u %d/%f


License
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For now, the license for the software is GPL version 2. It will
probably change when I have read version three.