On 6/17/05, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am giving the first steps with wget and I would like to know > > whether it is possible to get a list of the files that wget will > > download before downloading them. > > Unfortunately not. Something like this is likely to be added in a > future release. > > Although the usefulness of such a feature, at least with HTML, would > likely not be optimal. To know what you need to download you need to > actually download all of the HTML, which can be a non-negligible > percentage of the site's contents.
Thanks, Hrvoje. That feature would be useful. For instance, I am trying to download all the pdf files from some site with: wget -r --no-parent --no-directories --limit-rate=20k -l1 --accept *.pdf http://www.somesite.com and I think that to get the list of files to download would be very helpful, because it may be a huge list, containing unwanted pdf files. I suspect that it would be easy to implement (although I am not a programmer), since it would suffice to run wget and register each file name as wget runs, but, obviously, without downloading anything. Paul
