Am Freitag, 4. Oktober 2013, 22:26:18 schrieb e-letter: > Readers, > > Just learned an interesting observation: navigated to a directory > containing some audio files (mp3, ogg, etc.) > > Activated the command: > > wget -r -A *.mp3 http://url/to/mp3/files > > After download completed, some the majority mp3 files became empty > directories, but curiously a minor few (estimate 10 %) remained as > audio files: > > ls showed > > audio1.mp3 became audio1.mp3/ > > The moral, be careful fellow novices! :)
The moral is that posts without any details doesn't help anybody.
Please be so kind and post the output of
wget --version
and
wget -d -r -A *.mp3 http://url/to/mp3/files
I am absolutely not able to reproduce the described behaviour without further
details.
But if your shell expands *.mp3, you should have seen error messages.
In that case, try
wget -d -r -A "*.mp3" http://url/to/mp3/files
But that has nothing to do with Wget. It is a general problem in understanding
how shells work. Shell wildcard expansion often hits the novice :-(
What do you think how we can help novices ?
Maybe we should explicitely warn in the docs of -A/-R about shell wildcard
expansion ?
Regards, Tim
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