wget from remote index.htm in the linux box

frenchn00b · 10-28-2007, 03:37 PM

Hi,

I downloaded a webpage, saved it into my disk, and would like to use wget on the zip file that contains.

I would like it to read this remote htm file in my harddisk, and then to get it from internet.
wget works only with pages in html ? I cannot believe

thanks for any infos !

farslayer · 10-28-2007, 07:52 PM

Please restate the question. I do not understand what you are trying to do.

wget can grab any file from the internet you point it at.. I grab zip and executable files with it all the time. (nVidia driver for instance from the command line)

frenchn00b · 10-29-2007, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer

Please restate the question. I do not understand what you are trying to do.

wget can grab any file from the internet you point it at.. I grab zip and executable files with it all the time. (nVidia driver for instance from the command line)

An other way:

I have a webpage that downloaded in my /tmp/index.htm

there is inside some freewares to donwnload (direct link!!, nota)
sooo if I do :

Code:

wget -A.zip -l1 -r http://www.balalalkjfkdlsjqfdl.com

it works

If now I do :

Code:

wget -A.zip -l1 -r /tmp/index.htm

no way ...

Would you have any ideas ?
thanks a lot

BrianK · 10-29-2007, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frenchn00b

An other way:

I have a webpage that downloaded in my /tmp/index.htm

there is inside some freewares to donwnload (direct link!!, nota)
sooo if I do :

Code:

wget -A.zip -l1 -r http://www.balalalkjfkdlsjqfdl.com

it works

If now I do :

Code:

wget -A.zip -l1 -r /tmp/index.htm

no way ...

Would you have any ideas ?
thanks a lot

While I've not tested it, I think that wget needs to get items from a web server. In other words you can't just "wget /some/file" and expect it to behave the same as "wget http://some/file".

If you want it to work locally, install a webserver, put the html file in the webserver path, then "wget http://localhost/some/file"

That said, if all you're trying to do is parse links out of a file & wget them, there are better ways that installing a webserver just so you can use wget recursively.