Pierre, I'll give this a try asap. I can see that, given what you've said, the server would NEVER see "mirror.pnl.gov". This makes sense. Perhaps some mention of this in the man page would be helpful?
Regards and THANKS for your help with this, George... ________________________________ From: Pierre Fortin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: George R Goffe <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] A possible wget bug? On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:02:15 -0700 (PDT) George R Goffe wrote: >Hi, > >I'm downloading and would like to exclude several paths from the >download. I put the command in a script (enclosed below) but it keeps >doing the download. Am I messing something up? Am I not understanding >the syntax? > >My intent is to NOT download any of the i386, epel, macports, >postgresql, or the ubuntu directories. I tried just coding >i386,epel,macports,postgresql,ubuntu but that didn't work either. > >Any help you can give me in this would be wonderful. > >Regards, > >George... > > >wget -r -l999 --no-parent mirror.pnl.gov -X >"mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/development/19/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/18/Live/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/updates/15/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/updates/16/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/updates/17/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/updates/18/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/updates/19/i386,mirror.pnl.gov/epel,mirror.pnl.gov/macports,mirror.pnl.gov/postgresql,mirror.pnl.gov/releases,mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu" > Have you tried removing each mirror.pnl.gov making each path absolute and matching the server's view of its file structure? (newlines added for easier reading) /fedora/linux/development/19/i386, /fedora/linux/development/rawhide/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/i386, /fedora/linux/releases/18/Live/i386, /fedora/linux/updates/15/i386, /fedora/linux/updates/16/i386, /fedora/linux/updates/17/i386, /fedora/linux/updates/18/i386, /fedora/linux/updates/19/i386, /epel, /macports, /postgresql, /releases, /ubuntu
