Wget and asterisk character

Changes · 12-25-2008, 08:49 PM

I'm trying to download all the files in a directory while excluding those with a particular part in their name.

The filter I'm using is
wget (blah blah) -R "*300*.*, *400*.*"

This should mean "exclude any file of any extension that has "300" in its name. The numbers are the resolution; I'm trying to get it to not download the thumbnails. The large pictures do not have the resolution appended, so it should download them.

Wget correctly doesn't download files ending in (say) "picturewhatever-(number)-300x280", but will download those ending in "picturewhatever-(number)-240x300". Same goes with 400.

Why is this?
Thanks.

onebuck · 12-25-2008, 10:16 PM

Hi,

Code:

excerpt from 'man wget';
 -R rejlist --reject rejlist
           Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to
           accept or reject. Note that if any of the wildcard characters, *,
           ?, [ or ], appear in an element of acclist or rejlist, it will be
           treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix.