Greets. Been messing around with this for quite some time. I've man'ed it, read the online manual and just plain googled it but I can't get wget to do what I need it to do...

Need to stick with wget is the thing. I know whatever-ftp would be way better but I'm trying to get wget to do it. Perhaps someone who knows wget better than I do can throw me a bone.

All I want is the last directory listed below. It recursively works backwards which I find really odd. That leads you to mirroring the entire slackware.cs.utah.edu site. All I want is the slackware64 directory.

Any clues? Thanks. I've tried a whole host of options and haven't found the right combination yet...

-np will do.

Or --no-parent if you prefer the verbose form.

You want the depth option "-l 1" (or is it 0?)

edit:

I've tried both those before....

It'll start working backwards and get everything in:

http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/sla...ckware64-13.0/

as well. Once it gets all that, it will move back another directory and start downloading every slackware version made....

Been fighting with this for a couple hours off and on.

I don't think -l will help as the OP don't want what is *above* slackware64 in the tree.

BTW to keep the wole distribution in sync I do this :
rsync -avz --del rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware64-13.0 /some/local/directory/

That doesn't recursively work backwards but it also doesn't grab any of the packages. It just makes the directory tree of all the package sets and then stops....

Arggg.....

Believe me, rsync would be my first choice but it's for a script and I need to keep the deps down to basic linux commands, one of which I consider wget to be. That and I already use wget in the script for a few other things.

So frustrating....

IMHO wget is no more a basic Linux command than rsync. Or you could use lftp

This command can be run to automatically download updates to a local mirror.
Note- Any outdated packages are still kept.

'wget --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=2 --mirror \
--directory-prefix=<your local mirror directory> \
--output-file=<path and name of output log file> \
ftp://<url of your mirror>/<path to slackware>/'

Hi, jong357

You're almost there i guess.
Just remove the "-l1" option ( or use "-l3" or so... )

Some more info here : http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lar...v1/wget_7.html

cheers,
egag

Use -np as suggested and put a slash at the end of the URL to make wget understand who the parent is.
Really nice expression... I've never heard it. Funny!

Sure wget is a basic command. Any system that doesn't have it installed isn't worth chicken scratch.

I however do not keep lftp or rsync on any of my systems. Anyhoo....

Removing the depth switch -l and especially adding a trailing slash at the end seems to have done it. Thank you both for your input.

Actually I won't know for sure until 30 minutes or so, but the behavior is different already. It went straight to slackware64 and is staying there and diligently downloading everything in that directory.

If I don't post back with reports of it downloading other crap it's not supposed to then it worked. Thanks guys!

Pretty sure I had to use "-e robots=off" because their robots.txt file was denying me access. The --wait is out of courtesy just for bypassing their robots file....