Not only that, wget --mirror will follow and download all links, so you end up with ton of stuff you do not want including all web server generated html stuff.
Incremental rsync updates will not work because of - date stamps and different directory hierarchy. Once you do wget mirror, you are stuck with it. So, use -Nc switch to keep timestamps and do incremental update avoiding re-downloads. -T On Wed, Nov 6, 2019, 14:09 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
