Guys, I frequently need to pull multiple files from a remote host and I like to do it with a list of links that I just feed to wget with the -i option (and -b) and let it do its thing. The only pain is building the 'getfile' list. I wrote a little script that helps. If you are interested, you can grab it at: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dev/scr/net/lynxdump.sh As the name implies, it uses 'lynx -dump' to generate the list and then it parses the return to leave just the links in the output file. Normally, it will just create an output file with all links from the urls given on the command line in a single file 'without' any subdirectories included. Two options modify this behavior [-d|--dirs] causes subdirectories to be included and [-r|--rpms] return only links to rpms. (very handy for repos). The main timesaver of the script is the [-b|--base] option that tells the script to grab the baseURL from the next argument and use that for any subsequent directories specified on the command line. (again, very handy for working with repos -- you never have to enter the full url twice). For example, if you wanted the 11.2 libusb0 packages for i586, x86_64 and the src rpms, all you would need to do is: lynxdump -b http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/i5... src x86_64 -r to grab the binary and src.rpm links and eliminate all the mirror and metadata junk. The default output file is ./lynxdump.txt [or as specified with the -o option]. In the case above, here is the output file you would get: 01:10 alchemy:~> cat lynxdump.txt http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/i5... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/i5... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/i5... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/sr... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/x8... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/x8... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/x8... http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/libusb0/openSUSE_11.2/x8... All that is needed to retrieve the files now is 'wget -i lynxdump.txt' and your done. The script works equally well on 1 URL or 50 URLs. The only limitation is you cant specify more than 1 baseURL ( two -b options are not allowed). The script is reasonable commented and can be quickly adapted to handle time when you just want the .tar.gz files, .pdf files, etc... For those wanting to learn bash scripting a little better, this is a good script to dissect for a look at command line parameter handling with an array, array indexing, bash functions and returns, etc. Here the option specification order or position in the command line is unimportant. (obviously if you specify -b or -o, the next parameter must be a URL or output file, respectively. DNH, all, you see anything I could do better, let me know. I tried to rework the getdump() function to simply build the dumpSTR (see ## Scraps) at the bottom of the script, but I couldn't get lynx to accept a variable containing the pipes, etc... I was wanting to eliminate the 3 calls to lynx -dump in the function and simple pass the dumpSTR to a single call of lynx -dump at the bottom of the function, but ... "no dice." Thanks for any feedback you can offer. Enjoy :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org