copying locally requires you to create the local file first

[jmhodges]

In order to copy files from a zk server to a local drive, you have to first touch the files locally and then use "cp -f" to get them into place. The touching shouldn't be required.

for f in $(fileutil --zkhost=myhost.example.com ls zk:///some/path/); do 
  touch $f; 
  fileutil --zkhost=myhost.example.com cp -f zk:///some/path/${f} ${PWD}/${f}; 
done

Also, it would be nice to able to do globbing and not require the $PWD (or other absolute paths) in the local path.

[jmhodges]

Oh, and if you don't do the touching you get "Unknown path member_whatever" for each one being copied.