Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know. The reason directories are matched separately from
files is because files often *don't* match the pattern you've chosen
for directories. For example, -X/etc should exclude anything under
/etc, such as /etc/passwd, but also
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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know. The reason directories are matched separately from
files is because files often *don't* match the pattern you've chosen
for directories. For example, -X/etc should
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Someone just asked on the #wget IRC channel if there was a way to
exclude files with certain names, and I recommended -X, without
realizing that that option excludes directories, not files.
My question is: why do we allow users to exclude directories,
On 7/17/07, Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-R allows excluding files. If you use a wildcard character in -R, it
will treat it as a pattern and match it against the entire file name.
If not, it will treat it as a suffix (not really an extension, it
doesn't care about . being there or
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, but -R has a lesser degree of control over the sorts of
pathnames that it can constrain: for instance, if one uses
-Rmyprefix*, it will match files myprefix-foo.html and
myprefix-bar.mp3; but it will also match notmyprefix.js, which is
probably not
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Someone just asked on the #wget IRC channel if there was a way to
exclude files with certain names, and I recommended -X, without
realizing that that option excludes directories, not files.
My question is: why do we allow users to exclude
