From: Williamts99
> Is there any way [...] to force wget to use the wildcards?
Sure. You did it. Unfortunately, there's no way to force the HTTP
server to use wildcards.
One could probably write a script to do this sort of thing, but,
without knowing which OS you're using, it's difficult
I would like to use a command to get files numbered 1.pdf through
401.pdf but for some reason wget doesn't seem to support using wildcards
through HTTP. Is there any way around this limitation, to force wget to
use the wildcards?
my example would be something like:
wget http://print.nap.edu/pdf/
>From Tony Lewis:
> In which case, wget should do something reasonable (generate an error
> message, truncate the file name, etc.). [...]
Sadly, this is easier said than done. Around here (VMS), the
complaint is "i/o error". I haven't tried it on a UNIX, but it could
easily be different the
Vitaly Lomov wrote:
> It's a file system issue on windows: file path length is limited to
> 259 chars.
In which case, wget should do something reasonable (generate an error
message, truncate the file name, etc.). It shouldn't be left as exercise for
the user to figure out that the automatically g
It's a file system issue on windows: file path length is limited to 259 chars.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/148754
