Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
Mauro Tortonesi unife.it> writes: Jim Wright wrote: > Wildcards don't work is the accepted wisdom. I just realized that I > have been using downloads of the form "--accept AB06*a.T00,AB06*a.BNX" > for a long time and it works fine for me. Should it not? of course! i can't believe i wrote something so stupid. i was working on regex support, which will be included the next wget release, and for some reason (my brain was probably unplugged) i confused regex's with wildcards. i am sorry. you're right, of course. == Thank you very much I've got the test version working now. :-) Right, now I just have to migrate it into the "live" environment... I may be back but in case not, I appreciate the help. Regards, TeeJay ==
Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
Jim Wright wrote: Wildcards don't work is the accepted wisdom. I just realized that I have been using downloads of the form "--accept AB06*a.T00,AB06*a.BNX" for a long time and it works fine for me. Should it not? of course! i can't believe i wrote something so stupid. i was working on regex support, which will be included the next wget release, and for some reason (my brain was probably unplugged) i confused regex's with wildcards. i am sorry. > Looking at the lines below, the reject encompasses all of the accept, > so if reject is applied after accept, this may also explain the > problem. you're right, of course. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng.http://www.ing.unife.it GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linuxhttp://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
I'd suggest using your original accept, and not using a reject. You know specifically what you want, and all the rest will be ignored. Jim On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, TeeJay wrote: > Jim Wright unavco.org> writes: > > > > > Wildcards don't work is the accepted wisdom. I just realized that I > > have been using downloads of the form "--accept AB06*a.T00,AB06*a.BNX" > > for a long time and it works fine for me. Should it not? > > > > Looking at the lines below, the reject encompasses all of the accept, > > so if reject is applied after accept, this may also explain the problem. > > > > Jim > > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > > > > > accept = "*06*BATCH*VAT.CGL" > > > > reject = "*.CGL","*.CHK" > > > > > > you are using wildcard to specify which files to accept or reject, and > > > wget > > > does not support them. > > > -- > Good spot there Jim! My thanks. :-)) > OK. > Changed reject variable to remove "*.CGL" and modified "*.CHK" to simply CHK. > Also amended the accept variable to simply CGL - this is not really what I > want but I'm willing to try anything to first get a hit before I try to > whittle it down further. > > Happy to say I'm now getting a hit - well actually tons of them!! as the site > contains files with names "*Batch.CGL" as well as "*BatchVAT.CGL". > > It is only the latter files that I want. > > Any helpful hints? Or am going to have to resort to writing a batch file to > sift the data? > > > As always, thanks for your knowlegdable inputs. > > TeeJay. > >
Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
Jim Wright unavco.org> writes: > > Wildcards don't work is the accepted wisdom. I just realized that I > have been using downloads of the form "--accept AB06*a.T00,AB06*a.BNX" > for a long time and it works fine for me. Should it not? > > Looking at the lines below, the reject encompasses all of the accept, > so if reject is applied after accept, this may also explain the problem. > > Jim > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > > > accept = "*06*BATCH*VAT.CGL" > > > reject = "*.CGL","*.CHK" > > > > you are using wildcard to specify which files to accept or reject, and wget > > does not support them. > -- Good spot there Jim! My thanks. :-)) OK. Changed reject variable to remove "*.CGL" and modified "*.CHK" to simply CHK. Also amended the accept variable to simply CGL - this is not really what I want but I'm willing to try anything to first get a hit before I try to whittle it down further. Happy to say I'm now getting a hit - well actually tons of them!! as the site contains files with names "*Batch.CGL" as well as "*BatchVAT.CGL". It is only the latter files that I want. Any helpful hints? Or am going to have to resort to writing a batch file to sift the data? As always, thanks for your knowlegdable inputs. TeeJay.
Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
Mauro Tortonesi unife.it> writes: you are using wildcard to specify which files to accept or reject, and wget does not support them. - Thanks for the quick response Mauro! I am surprised at the response though because from the wget.html doc I read the following: [Quote] accept = acclist The argument to --accept option is a list of file suffixes or patterns that Wget will download during recursive retrieval. A suffix is the ending part of a file, and consists of "normal" letters, e.g. gif or .jpg. A matching pattern contains shell-like wildcards, e.g. books* or zelazny*196[0-9]*. So, specifying wget -A gif,jpg will make Wget download only the files ending with gif or jpg, i.e. GIFs and JPEGs. On the other hand, wget -A "zelazny*196 [0-9]*" will download only files beginning with zelazny and containing numbers from 1960 to 1969 anywhere within. Look up the manual of your shell for a description of how pattern matching works. Of course, any number of suffixes and patterns can be combined into a comma- separated list, and given as an argument to -A. [EndQuote] Has this ability to specify patterns changed? Is there any way else I can specify the types of files I want i.e. only those with file names after the "accepted" pattern? BTW I forgot to mention that I'm using Wget Ver 1.10.2 Thanks in advance. TeeJay
Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
Wildcards don't work is the accepted wisdom. I just realized that I have been using downloads of the form "--accept AB06*a.T00,AB06*a.BNX" for a long time and it works fine for me. Should it not? Looking at the lines below, the reject encompasses all of the accept, so if reject is applied after accept, this may also explain the problem. Jim On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > accept = "*06*BATCH*VAT.CGL" > > reject = "*.CGL","*.CHK" > > you are using wildcard to specify which files to accept or reject, and wget > does not support them.
Re: Help Newbie: Files required are not downloaded.
TeeJay wrote: Help for a newbie please. I have created my wgetrc file. It contains the following variables: input = C:\WGET\source.txt user = (crossed out for security) password = (crossed out for security) check_certificate = off recursive = on reclevel = 2 no_parent = off dirstruct = off html_extension = off accept = "*06*BATCH*VAT.CGL" reject = "*.CGL","*.CHK" quiet = on server_response = on logfile = C:\WGET\Wgetlog.log When I run in debug mode (wget -d), my log file shows the directory listing of all files from the site specified. Yet after "deciding whether to enqueue" those specified by the "accept" command variable, "Decided NOT to load it" is always the result. Have I done something wrong with the wgetrc file or it's variables? you are using wildcard to specify which files to accept or reject, and wget does not support them. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng.http://www.ing.unife.it GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linuxhttp://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
