Suggestion

[Matthew J Harms]

I’m sure you’ve already had this suggested, and I don’t know if it will work, due to the complexity of the suggestion, but is there a way you could implement the capability of wget to download any file that meets a criteria yet use wildcards (i.e. * or ?) to fill in the blanks.  For example, I’m trying to download the latest Intelligent Updater antivirus definitions from Symantec’s website, but I don’t want to have to visit the site to figure out what the actual file name is, in order to download it.  So if I were able to use wildcards I would put something like, “wget http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/200506*.exe -N” and leave it up to wget to get only the latest file from the server.  Now I don’t know if possible because I don’t think, but I could be wrong, wget has the possibility to preview the sites and find out what files it does have, in order to download the latest.  Or, even if it could download every file that were newer than the last one in the folder, wget will still download the file to specified folder.  I’ve tried to access the definitions site by itself, but there is nothing to be seen.    I’m not sure if wget even has the capability right now to do it?  I’ve tried previewing the help that comes with it, but there is nothing mentioning what I’ve suggested within the help.  I’ll keep looking around on the inet to see if anyone else has figured it out.   Thanks,    Matt