Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. Try this: emerge HTML-Tree then as a normal user, run this script like so (where

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-05 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. my previous message assumes that your bookmark file is in reality a HTML file.

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-03 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Saturday 03 December 2005 09:04, Robert Persson wrote: I wasn't running it as root. The strange thing is that httrack did start creating a directory structure in ~/websites consisting of a couple of dozen directories or so (e.g. ~/websites/politics/www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/), but

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-03 Thread Matthew Cline
On 12/3/05, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it couldn't handle this particular file. I don't know what the exact format of your

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-03 Thread Robert Persson
On December 3, 2005 05:40 am Martins Steinbergs was like: if there isn't any files or folders under /websites then it isn't problem with httrack. if mirroring goes wrong, then there at least should be project folder containing hts-cash folder and hts-log.txt; index.html files. sorry, not much

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:41:36 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: One option would be to feed wget a list of urls. The trouble is I don't know how to turn an html bookmark file into a simple list of urls. I imagine I could do it in sed if I spent enough time to learn sed, but my afternoon has gone now

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 02 December 2005 07:25, Shawn Singh wrote: I guess I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but when I want to get a local copy of a website I do this: nohup wget -m http://www.someUrL.org Shawn On 12/2/05, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying all

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 01:05 am Neil Bothwick was like: wget will accept most files containing URLs, it doesn't have to be a straight list. Try feeding it your bookmark file as is. Tried that. It borked. :-( -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 01:37 am Martins Steinbergs was like: if there realy no files and dirs created in ~/websites folder, try to check write permissions or is there any space left. Permissions are fine and there is quite a bit of space on the disk. httrack creates directories in ~/websites,

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Billy Holmes
Robert Persson wrote: I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through wget -r http://$site/ have you tried that, yet? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 07:42 am Billy Holmes was like: Robert Persson wrote: I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through wget -r http://$site/ have you tried that, yet? The trouble is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Persson
On December 2, 2005 06:40 am Martins Steinbergs was like: if httrack is runing as root all stuff goes to /root/websites/ , explored there? I wasn't running it as root. The strange thing is that httrack did start creating a directory structure in ~/websites consisting of a couple of dozen

[gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Persson
I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through khttrack), pavuk and wget, but none of them work. httrack and pavuk seem to claim they can do the job, but they can't, or at least not in any way an

Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

2005-12-01 Thread Shawn Singh
I guess I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but when I want to get a local copy of a website I do this: nohup wget -m http://www.someUrL.org ShawnOn 12/2/05, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from anetscape