Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> Trying to exclude certain directories from a download. I've trie
> about every syntax known to man but nothing is being excluded.
>
> -X dir
> -X /dir
> -X "/dir"
> -X "dir"
>
> --exclude dir
> --exclude "dir"
>
> etc etc
>
> Using the long option I get:
> /usr/local/bin/wget: option `--exclude' is ambiguous
>
> Using the -X option nothing is excluded. Can someone post a working
> example?
>
> The examples in info do not work for me. Not as they are written
> there at any rate.
Now let's see what the info pages has to say:
`-I LIST'
`--include LIST'
`include_directories = LIST'
`-I' option accepts a comma-separated list of directories included
in the retrieval. Any other directories will simply be ignored.
The directories are absolute paths.
^^^^^^^^
So, if you wish to download from `http://host/people/bozo/'
following only links to bozo's colleagues in the `/people'
directory and the bogus scripts in `/cgi-bin', you can specify:
wget -I /people,/cgi-bin http://host/people/bozo/
`-X LIST'
`--exclude LIST'
`exclude_directories = LIST'
`-X' option is exactly the reverse of `-I'--this is a list of
directories _excluded_ from the download. E.g. if you do not want
Wget to download things from `/cgi-bin' directory, specify `-X
/cgi-bin' on the command line.
The same as with `-A'/`-R', these two options can be combined to
get a better fine-tuning of downloading subdirectories. E.g. if
you want to load all the files from `/pub' hierarchy except for
`/pub/worthless', specify `-I/pub -X/pub/worthless'.
Ah, it isn't that clearly said that it has to be an absolute path. But
the exemples are all using one. (You're welcome to provide a better
description for the info pages)
Making some test with wget version 1.6 shows that it works as described.
Even -X securescan works just as well as -X /securescan. But -X jobs
will not exclude /about/jobs/...
[hack@DUR0N2000 webs]$ wget -X securescan,i,css,press,jobs -r -l inf
http://www
.vigilante.com/
>
> This is my second post on this... no one has offered any advice.
> Does the exclude option even work?
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