Re: wget question

[Jordon Bedwell <jordon@envygeeks.com>]

On 8/3/2010 2:56 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
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> Hi.
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> I've wanted to do one thing with wget that just seems like it should
> be easy, but I haven't been able to get a combination of "recurse"
> and "level" that will do it.
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> All I want to do is download all the files in a specific directory.
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> The directories are viewable, for example,
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> http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/
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> But wget http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/ just gets the index.html
> file, wget http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/* returns an error, and
> the one time I put -r for recursion, it started downloading
> everything in the http://media.mises.org/mp3/ directory!
>
> Does anyone have a trick? Using Konqueror and click-and-dragging every
> single file is a long, boring task that wears out my mouse.
>
> Curt-

Check out: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/wget/wget_31.html it has some 
neat tricks for wget, perhaps some along the lines of what you want.  I 
would test a few but my server is too smart for wget and flat out tells 
it where it can go.