On Friday 19 August 2005 11:50 am, Carl G. Ponder wrote: > I just started using "wget" to recursively fetch directories, and was > disappointed to find that it didn't get files like ".profile" that start > with ".". I see there are fixes posted in the web at sites like > > http://www.unixwiz.net/patches/wget-1.9.1-dotfiles-patch.txt > http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/wget-dotfiles.html > > I'm not using the most current version of "wget", but I looked at the > release-notes on version 1.10.1 on the > "http://svn.dotsrc.org/repo/wget/tags/WGET_1_10_1/NEWS"; website, and it > didn't look like this patch had been implemented. > > Can you put this fix in the next release? Also, I've found a mirror of some > of the GNU mailing- lists posted as newsgroups under > gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs and other such lists. Are the "wget" > mailing-lists posted anywhere?
this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses the LIST -a FTP command, which AFAIK is not supported by all FTP servers. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute for Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
