On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 18:03, Jeff Vian wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > >Am Di, den 06.04.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 22:51: > > > > > > > >>>To your 'problem': wget ftp://server_address/path/dir/*.rpm > >>> > >>>See "man wget" and "wget --help". > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>And to get the entire directory tree from a single point use > >> # wget -r ftp://server_address/path/dir > >> > >> > > > >Jeff, that is certainly right. I only was careful not to mention the > >"-r" switch :) It is advised to use the "-l" switch in combination with > >"-r". > > > >My answer was especial for an FTP server source and will not fit for > >HTTP servers. > > > > > > > I agree, but for ftp you only have the depth of the filesystem structure > to consider. This is useful, for example, when mirroring a site. I use > it this way regularly and with a careful look at the amount to be > downloaded it works well. > > With http you most certainly would want the "-l" option to prevent an > enourmous tree spanning (potentially) the entire internet since > recursion on a web page would follow ALL links. > > > Jeff I would also be careful of just using *.rpm since you could potentially get a huge amount of files for all architectures, distros, src, arch, etc. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
