Carl Ponder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about this, then document wget as follows:
By default, for wildcard and recursive operations, wget
*ignores* invisible files (like .profile, .rhosts, etc.)
that begin with '.'.
But that's the catch, it really doesn't ignore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Schweda) writes:
[...] I for one would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download
dot files by default, without the user's intervention.
Given the variability in FTP servers (even among UNIX FTP servers) I
don't see how this could be done reliably.
I hoped
Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses
the
LIST -a FTP command, which AFAIK is not supported by all FTP servers.
As I recall, that's why the patch was not accepted. However, it would be
useful
Carl Ponder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey -- how about making the -a the default, then add a command-line
switch that supresses -a for servers it won't work with?
That would mean using a non-standard extension by default, and putting
the burden to the user to disable it when it misfires. A
On Friday 19 August 2005 11:50 am, Carl G. Ponder wrote:
I just started using wget to recursively fetch directories, and was
disappointed to find that it didn't get files like .profile that start
with .. I see there are fixes posted in the web at sites like
Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses
the
LIST -a FTP command, which AFAIK is not supported by all FTP servers.
As I recall, that's why the patch was not accepted. However, it would be
useful if there were some command line option to
