On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Micah Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/24/2010 11:15 AM, Vinh Nguyen wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> I'm using wget 1.12 on ubuntu 10.04. I don't know if this is a bug or >> not. I'm using >> >> wget -U firefox -r -l1 -nd -e robots=off -A.pdf http://example.com >> >> to download pdf's off a page. The dilemma is that a lot of the pdf >> links on the page has the same name (example.pdf). Wget is supposed >> to append .1, .2, etc, to those files. However, with the above >> command, only .1 is appended, and hence, only one file with .1 is >> seen. If I set "-A.pdf,.pdf.1", then .1 and .2 gets appended, but .2 >> gets repeated and only one .2 file is available at the end. >> >> Are some of my arguments conflicting? > > Looks like that blasted delete-after logic again: it's because after the > rename, the files no longer match -A.pdf, so they get deleted (not sure > how you still have a .pdf.1 at all at the end, unless you're > interrupting wget before it gets a chance to delete it). As a > workaround, you should be able to use something like -A '*.pdf,*.pdf.*' >
Thanks Micah, this works. > -- > Micah J. Cowan > http://micah.cowan.name/ >
