Robert P Dale wrote: > I'm doing a check of > > http://motherlode.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/ldm/genweb?native/radar/level3/N0R/GRR/20 > 090212 > > every 5 minutes to grab the newest file only, with filenames that always > change (i.e. timestamps are never the same day to day or even hour to hour.) > If I do wget -r -N it does the job, but it seems to take a lengthy process > to check each and every file. Is there a way to tell it to just compare > what's newest on the server and compare to my local side?
Are you asking whether there's a way to ask the server, "What are the newest files, so I can check whether they're newer than what I have"? If so, then no. -mjc
