[PLUG] Re wget

Rogan Creswick creswick at cs.orst.edu
Tue Oct 1 16:17:54 UTC 2002


wget is a handy tool to know of. The -m switch makes it mirror the site you
specify, following links. This doesn't work with many dynamic-content sites
however (wget sees the page "hey, this is a new version!" grabs it,
eventually finds a link back to the top, queries the server for the page,
sees it, "Hey, this is a new version!" grabs it...")

Just doing wget <url> will pull just that url down the pipe. 

A useful thing to do would be to bind a key to a script that cd's to a
predefined downloads dir and runs wget on whatever is in the clipboard.

-Rogan


On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:52:16PM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> Thanks Rogan and Russ. Never used wget, and it seems to be working.
> Dirk
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