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: how to follow incorrect links?

2005-02-17 Thread jens . roesner
Hi Tomasz! > There are some websites with backslashes istead of slashes in links. > For instance : > instead of : > Internet Explorer can "repair" such addresses. My own assumption is: It repairs them, because Microsoft introduced that #censored# way of writing HTML. Anyway, this will not he

how to follow incorrect links?

2005-02-17 Thread Tomasz Toczyski
There are some websites with backslashes istead of slashes in links. For instance : instead of : Internet Explorer can "repair" such addresses. My question is: How to make wget to follow such addresses? (I'd like to recursiely retieve a website with many such links) Regards, -tt

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