On 2/5/2012 1:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've read the man pages for wget and curl and tried various command line > syntaxa (syntaxes? syntaxim?) but none worked. Perhaps these are not the > proper tools (I installed a firefox add-on called DownThemAll but could not > find instructions how to use it.) > > What I'd like to do is specify a URL and download all files in that > directory, or a wildcard-specified set such as *.t?z. > > I'd appreciate learning how to use wget, curl, or another tool to do this.
What type of URL is it? HTTP? FTP? There's really not a one-to-one mapping of URLs to specific files, or even directories. There's nothing that says the server even has to provide a list of files visible at a given path. Some servers do so as a default, but others may not. You have to know how to request a list of those files from the server, be able to parse it, and then issue the appropriate commands. -- Jim Garrison ([email protected]) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
