You might want to consider using Alien Bob's scripts to handle the rsync command. http://www.slackware.com/~alien/
But.. for a quick and dirty solution the following should work The syntax is rsync [opts] [remote path] [local path] While people have strong opinions on this one, here's the command I use: $ rsync -rvh https://rsync.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/ /path/to/local/folder/slackware64-14.2/ Make sure you create a slackware64-14.2 folder to put it in and specify the full path to it. My approach is unusually explicit since I hate getting tripped up by rsync's interpretation of / Pay attention to the / at the end of the paths. Rysnc is very particular about that when copying folders or their contents and if you aren't careful it puts files in unexpected subdirectories. That's why you want to wrap it in a script, like the one I linked above. On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:09 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > rsync is probably a better option. > > https://rsync.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/ > > Galen, > > My apologies: it looks like a better option because wget is mirroring the > entire slackware/ directory tree. > > When I used > > wget --mirror -e robots=off https://rsync.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/14.2/ > . > > the entire directory tree subdirectories were downloaded first thing. > Trying > rsync failed because it could not recognize https://. > > I've not found the proper command line syntax to download only the > slackware64-14.2/ contents. > > What would be the appropriate command line? > > Regards, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
