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Re: [SLE] wget question
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:30:55 -0700
- Message-id: <200409201030.55298.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Jim,
On Monday 20 September 2004 11:59, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >Jim,
> >
> >
> >Wget is very powerful. There are many options, but they're not
> >particularly difficult to understand, so you'd be well advised to
> >familiarize yourself with them. The "--help" output is over 100 lines
> >long.
>
> As I posted, I spent hours reading man, then online manual, and
> searching google for the answer. This situation isn't covered in any
> of them that I could find. I think the wget community would be well
> served by having this type of usage covered by an example.
Here's an excerpt from the manual page:
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
--cut-dirs=number
Ignore number directory components. This is useful for getting a
fine-grained control over the directory where recursive retrieval will be
saved.
Take, for example, the directory at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/. If
you retrieve it with -r, it will be saved locally under
ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/. While the -nH option can remove the
ftp.xemacs.org/ part, you are still stuck with pub/xemacs. This is where
--cut-dirs comes in handy; it makes Wget not ‘‘see'' number remote
directory components. Here are several examples of how --cut-dirs option
works.
No options -> ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
-nH -> pub/xemacs/
-nH --cut-dirs=1 -> xemacs/
-nH --cut-dirs=2 -> .
--cut-dirs=1 -> ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/
...
If you just want to get rid of the directory structure, this option is
similar to a combination of -nd and -P. However, unlike -nd, --cut-dirs
does not lose with subdirectories---for instance, with -nH --cut-dirs=1,
a beta/ subdirectory will be placed to xemacs/beta, as one would expect.
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
To me, wget ain't rocket science.
And if you want to get hired for computer work, you're surely going to
have to be able to figure this sort of thing out under your own
intellectual power, it seems to me.
Randall Schulz
On Monday 20 September 2004 11:59, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >Jim,
> >
> >
> >Wget is very powerful. There are many options, but they're not
> >particularly difficult to understand, so you'd be well advised to
> >familiarize yourself with them. The "--help" output is over 100 lines
> >long.
>
> As I posted, I spent hours reading man, then online manual, and
> searching google for the answer. This situation isn't covered in any
> of them that I could find. I think the wget community would be well
> served by having this type of usage covered by an example.
Here's an excerpt from the manual page:
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
--cut-dirs=number
Ignore number directory components. This is useful for getting a
fine-grained control over the directory where recursive retrieval will be
saved.
Take, for example, the directory at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/. If
you retrieve it with -r, it will be saved locally under
ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/. While the -nH option can remove the
ftp.xemacs.org/ part, you are still stuck with pub/xemacs. This is where
--cut-dirs comes in handy; it makes Wget not ‘‘see'' number remote
directory components. Here are several examples of how --cut-dirs option
works.
No options -> ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
-nH -> pub/xemacs/
-nH --cut-dirs=1 -> xemacs/
-nH --cut-dirs=2 -> .
--cut-dirs=1 -> ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/
...
If you just want to get rid of the directory structure, this option is
similar to a combination of -nd and -P. However, unlike -nd, --cut-dirs
does not lose with subdirectories---for instance, with -nH --cut-dirs=1,
a beta/ subdirectory will be placed to xemacs/beta, as one would expect.
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
To me, wget ain't rocket science.
And if you want to get hired for computer work, you're surely going to
have to be able to figure this sort of thing out under your own
intellectual power, it seems to me.
Randall Schulz
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