David wrote: > Is there a way to prevent wget from redownloading files it has already > downloaded when using the recursive -r option? I know that -c is used > when downloading a large file but I wasn't sure if it also could be > used to accomplish this. It seems like even if it was set not to > download files it would still have to check to make sure the file had > been completely downloaded. Right now it's hard for me to tell if this > is its behavior when using -rc as the individual files are small and > thus do not take long to download (I cannot tell if wget is actually > downloading the full file or just requesting the file's size from the > server and moving on upon seeing that the file is already complete.
I typically use -rc. -rN is also a possibility. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/
