Payal Rathod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:03:34PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> Payal Rathod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:26:47PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> >> The way to do it with Wget would be something like:
>> >>
>> >> wget --mirror --no-host-directories ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> > But if I run in thru' crontab, where will it store the downloaded files?
>> > I want it to store as it is in server 1.
>>
>> It will store them to the current directory. You can either cd to the
>> desired target directory, or use the `-P' flag to specify the
>> directory to Wget.
>
> Thanks a lot. It works wonderfully. But one small thing here. I am
> trying to use it thru' cron like this,
>
> 51 * * * * wget --mirror --no-host-directories -P /home/t1 ftp://root:[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]//home/payal/qmail*
>
> But instead of delivering it to /home/t1, wget makes a directory
> /home/t1/home/payal and put the qmail* files there.
>
> What is the workaround for this?
Use `--cut-dirs=2', which will tell Wget to get rid of two levels of
directory hierarchy ("home" and "payal").
