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wget with sub directories

  • 07-01-2008 09:38PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭


    can someone tell me the command line option please to get the following site downloaded to my local machine
    http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html

    I'd like it to download the html links of this page. and when I try just
    wget http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html it only d/l's the one html file.

    should I first be trying to get the links from the html page into a txt file to fee into wget ? or can I download the site from a directory (with all files) pointof view?

    thanks in advance

    Fionn


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭ressem


    wget -rl 4 http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html

    Downloads the page and all files on it to a depth of 4 links.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭Fionn101


    thanks for the reply ressem. I tried this but I get a permission denied error(fair enough)

    today I was thinking it would perhaps be best if I do visit each page on their site and save off the text,that way I get the end result I'd like (which is an off-line copy of this howto) and they (linux.org) would get to serve out their fair share of google adwords and keep the site alive.

    A win win situation I reckon. (ahem..)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    If you use the -k (--convert-links) switch the local copy is rebuilt for local browsing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭Fionn101


    worked a charm, thanks .

    oonly annoying part was stripping out the google syndycation ads.

    Thanks all


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