Re: Suggesting Feature: Download anything newer than...
> but if you're going to add > --not-before, you might as well add --not-after too. I'd suggest --before (<) and --since (>=), but I may be prejudiced by exposure to VMS, where many commands use similar qualifiers. (But if you _like_ longer, more complicated option names, ...) > Me add?!? ;-) It's that, or wait for someone else to do it. You decide. > Is adding such features being worked on by someone - or > should I start cramming C and RFCs, and *try to* make > a patch for it myself? I know that _I_ wasn't working on them. I don't think that you need any RFC's for this, mostly just code theft from other parts of the program. It could be an educational experience. (I hate educational experiences.) If my experience is any guide, getting any changes into the main development code may be more of a challenge than getting those changes to work properly. Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street(+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
Re: Suggesting Feature: Download anything newer than...
"Tony Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > I don't think there is such a feature, > but if you're going to add > --not-before, you might as well add --not-after too. Yes, that would probably be a good idea... > but if you're going to add Me add?!? ;-) It's not that I don't know *how* to program in C, it's just that I'm just about as skilled in programming as I am in swimming - I can swim, but I swim more or less like a wrench. :-) No, I'm afraid it would be a lot better if someone *else* added the feature... "Steven M. Schweda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > See also: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg09662.html (Also looked at the reply) Two (three) minds, one thought... this seems to be *exactly* what I'm looking for (the "update-only" feature suggested would also be usefull)... Is adding such features being worked on by someone - or should I start cramming C and RFCs, and *try to* make a patch for it myself? Thanks for your replies. Glad to know I *still* know my way around man-pages... ;-) -Koppe
Re: Suggesting Feature: Download anything newer than...
See also: http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg09662.html Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street(+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
RE: Suggesting Feature: Download anything newer than...
I don't think there is such a feature, but if you're going to add --not-before, you might as well add --not-after too. Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:27 PM To: wget@sunsite.dk Subject: Suggesting Feature: Download anything newer than... I'm a very frequent user of wget, but must admit I haven't dived too deep into various options - but as far as I can tell, what I'm about to suggest is not a current feature. If it is, can somebody tell me how to access it? 0:-) What I'm suggesting is something similar to -N (check timestamp and download newer) and may perhaps be used more as a modifier to -N than a seperate option. I occationally make a mirror of certain site with wget, and then throw it into an archive. Unfortuanately, a few months (year) later when I want to catch-up with any updates, I either have to mirror the whole thing again or locate the old archive and unpack it (and I haven't necesserely preserved the whole directory structure). What I would love was the ability to specify (through an option) an arbitrary timestamp (a date... and perhaps time), and for only files created/modified after this time to be downloaded (e.g. the approximate time for the creation of my latest archive). I am envision it as based on the -N option; except that rather than looking on the time-stamp - or the size or even the existance - of a local file, it would only compare the remote file's timestamp to the supplied timestamp - and download if the remote file was newer. Of course, it would probably be h*** of a lot worse to program than just rewriting the -N option. :-) It would have to parse links in HTML-files (HTML) or traverse directories (FTP). Usually it would be used when no local mirror existed, and then creating a mirror of just files made after a certain time (it would of course have to create a dir-structure containing directories also older than the specified time, but no older files). However being able to use it (a specified time) together with the -N or --mirror option, may also be useful when updating a local mirror (though I can't actually see when); so perhaps it should be an option to be used in *companion* with -N (rather than instead of -N)... or at least let it be *possible* to use it together with -N and --mirror as well as by itself. -Koppe
Suggesting Feature: Download anything newer than...
I'm a very frequent user of wget, but must admit I haven't dived too deep into various options - but as far as I can tell, what I'm about to suggest is not a current feature. If it is, can somebody tell me how to access it? 0:-) What I'm suggesting is something similar to -N (check timestamp and download newer) and may perhaps be used more as a modifier to -N than a seperate option. I occationally make a mirror of certain site with wget, and then throw it into an archive. Unfortuanately, a few months (year) later when I want to catch-up with any updates, I either have to mirror the whole thing again or locate the old archive and unpack it (and I haven't necesserely preserved the whole directory structure). What I would love was the ability to specify (through an option) an arbitrary timestamp (a date... and perhaps time), and for only files created/modified after this time to be downloaded (e.g. the approximate time for the creation of my latest archive). I am envision it as based on the -N option; except that rather than looking on the time-stamp - or the size or even the existance - of a local file, it would only compare the remote file's timestamp to the supplied timestamp - and download if the remote file was newer. Of course, it would probably be h*** of a lot worse to program than just rewriting the -N option. :-) It would have to parse links in HTML-files (HTML) or traverse directories (FTP). Usually it would be used when no local mirror existed, and then creating a mirror of just files made after a certain time (it would of course have to create a dir-structure containing directories also older than the specified time, but no older files). However being able to use it (a specified time) together with the -N or --mirror option, may also be useful when updating a local mirror (though I can't actually see when); so perhaps it should be an option to be used in *companion* with -N (rather than instead of -N)... or at least let it be *possible* to use it together with -N and --mirror as well as by itself. -Koppe
