At 09:02 AM 1/14/2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a syntax such that I can connect to the host once, transfer > > the four files, and then disconnect? > >Unfortunately, no, not yet.
Actually, I dug through the documentation some more and found I could use the -B (base) option to put the URL on the command line, and list the four files in the list file. This makes the action what I want, but unfortunately requires editing the command line (batch file). It would be nice if wget eventually recognizes identical hosts and connects only once. I also discovered much to my delight that I could use for the list file a general text file that is a synopsis I retrieved from the Commerce Business Daily / Fed Biz Opps. It parsed the text file, reported an error on each of the many lines that was not a URL, and proceeded to download correctly each / all of 22 files listed in the text file as separate URLs -- all without "operator intervention". I can ignore the error messages, and I don't have to edit the text file to delete all but the URLs. That's great. I presume that I would have to do enough editing so that each of the URLs is on a line by itself, not embedded in text. My test example was already that way. But on the wish list . . . wget is a marvelous product. Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
