Re: wget usage help, please

[stan <stanb@awod.com>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:11:32PM -0500, stan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:40:36PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > > I thought the no-parent might eb the key, but I tried:
> > > 
> > > wget --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
> > > 
> > > And let it run for a few seconds, and here is what I get:
> > > 
> > > ls
> > > 
> > > openview.hp.com         www.ca.com              www.thestoragegroup.com
> > > www.amazon.com          www.falconstor.com      www.truesan.com
> > > www.backupcentral.com   www.hyperio.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I know I used to do this a lot. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > I think you can probably get around that by using
> > --include-directories=/path to further limit what you retrieve.
> > 
> nsk, that + the tip about why this specific site was giving me fits fixed
> it up just great.
> 
> I wound up with teh command line:
> 
>  wget --convert-links --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com \
>  http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
> 
> Just to get the final resolutin in the list archive for those that may
> search for this later.
> 
> NOTE, the -r 10 is probably excesive here.

Make that:

  wget --convert-links --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com \
  --exclude-directorie=cgi-bin http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html

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