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 -Xdir 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! I've

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 -Xdir 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 these

-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]

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

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 have

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 how to do

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 is