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, but > not files?
-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 not). -X always excludes directories and allows wildcards. It was supposed to be a DWIM thing.
