Re: -X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-20 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] "Jens Rösner" wrote: } Hi Vince! } } > I did give -X"*backup" a try, and } > it too didn't work for me. :( } } Does the -X"dir" work for you at all? } If not, there might be a problem with MacOS. } I hope one of the more knowledgeable people here } can help you

Re: -X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-18 Thread Jens Rösner
Hi Vince! > I did give -X"*backup" a try, and > it too didn't work for me. :( Does the -X"dir" work for you at all? If not, there might be a problem with MacOS. I hope one of the more knowledgeable people here can help you! > However, I would like to confirm something dumb - will wget fetch the

Re: -X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-17 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] "Jens Rösner" wrote: Hi Jens, } Would -X"*backup" be OK for you? It depends on how the trailing wildcard is used - the actual name of the directories is ".backup", but they are in each directory [and yes, there is html in each page which refers to them, which

Re: -X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-17 Thread Jens Rösner
Hi Vince! > So, so far these don't work for me: > > --exclude-directories='*.backup*' > --exclude-directories="*.backup*" > --exclude-directories="*\.backup*" Would -X"*backup" be OK for you? If yes, give it a try. If not, I think you'd need the correct escaping for the ".", but I have no idea

Re: -X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-17 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] "Jens Rösner" wrote: Hi Jens! } > tip or two with regards to using -X? } I'll try! Thanks - I do appreciate it! } > wget -r --exclude-directories='*.backup*' --no-parent \ } > http://example.com/dir/stuff/ } Well, I am using wget under Windows and there, you h

Re: -X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-17 Thread Jens Rösner
Hi Vince! > tip or two with regards to using -X? I'll try! > wget -r --exclude-directories='*.backup*' --no-parent \ > http://example.com/dir/stuff/ Well, I am using wget under Windows and there, you have have to use "exp", not 'exp', to make it work. The *x* works as expected. I could not test

-X regex syntax? (repost)

2005-02-17 Thread Vince LaMonica
I hate to do this, but I am still stumped by this. Can anyone pass along a tip or two with regards to using -X? Thanks, /vjl/ [repost follows]: Hi all, I'm using GNU Wget 1.9.1 under Mac OS X, and I'm trying to confirm that I have the correct syntax for using the -X [or --exclude-directories] ar

-X regex syntax?

2005-02-07 Thread Vince LaMonica
Hi all, I'm using GNU Wget 1.9.1 under Mac OS X, and I'm trying to confirm that I have the correct syntax for using the -X [or --exclude-directories] argument. For example, I have a URL which I would like to wget with a -r. The URL contains many directories that are named, ".backup". I do not w