[ale] wget

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Jan 7 21:23:18 EST 2002


try:

wget -r -l6 www.foo.net/user-dir/ 

This will recurse and stop after 6 levels.

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 19:58, Geoffrey wrote:
> I'm attempting to recursively retrieve a web site using wget.  My
> expectation is that it would travel down all the directories trees and
> get every file.  I've tried various options, but none seem to do what I
> would like.  Clues would be helpful.
> 
> For example if I execute the following:
> 
> wget -m www.foo.net/user-dir/
> 
> I was expecting everything under user-dir (directories and there
> contents) would be retrieved.  As the -m option includes '-l inf' my
> expectation was that it would traverse
> www.foo.net/user-dir/dir0/...../dirN/
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> "...the system (Microsoft passport) carries significant risks to users
> that
> are not made adequately clear in the technical documentation available."
> - David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research
> - http://www.avirubin.com/passport.html
> 
> ---
> This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
> See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be 
> sent to listmaster at ale dot org.
> 
-- 
James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244             \.___________________________./

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 



 PGP signature




More information about the Ale mailing list