I want to download the new release of slackware, but don't need these source/ directories. They are everywhere, though.. How can I ignore them via the wget command line? With them the download grows two times bigger..

say you wanna mirror this address, for example:

ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-10.0/


normally, you'd do something like:

wget --mirror ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-10.0


but since you don't want the directory called "source", you can exclude it like this:

wget --mirror --exclude-directories=slackware-10.0/source ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-10.0


and if you'd wanna exclude a whole bunch of directories, it could look something like this (for example):

wget --mirror --exclude-directories=\
slackware-10.0/bootdisks,\
slackware-10.0/extra,\
slackware-10.0/pasture,\
slackware-10.0/rootdisks,\
slackware-10.0/source,\
slackware-10.0/testing,\
slackware-10.0/zipslack,\
slackware-10.0/slackware/gnome,\
slackware-10.0/slackware/kde,\
slackware-10.0/slackware/kdei,\
slackware-10.0/slackware/patches/source \
ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-10.0


do a man wget for more info...

good luck...

Just using '--exclude-directories=source', or even '-X source', will exclude _all_ directories named source.........

It's not true, I've tested it (GNU Wget 1.10.2) : it will only exclude the directory named 'source' at the top of the hierarchy.

To remove all directories named source, one must use wildcards like , even if it doesn't seem to work for /one/two/source -> any idea ?.

The OP could probably just download the CD1 and CD2 images , I think.