[Bug-wget] Re: Only follow paths with /res/ in them

[Micah Cowan]

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Micah Cowan wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> I would like to follow all the urls on a site that contain /res/ in the
>> path. I've tried using -I and -A, with values such as res, *res*,
>> */res/*, etc.. Here is an example that downloads pretty much the entire
>> site, rather than what I appear  (to me) to have specified:
> 
>> wget -O- -q http://img.site.org/b/imgboard.html | wget -q -r -l1 -O- -I
>> '*res*' -A '*res*' --force-html -B http://img.site.org/b/ -i-
> 
>> The urls I would like to follow and output to the command line are of
>> the form:
> 
>> http://img.site.org/b/res/97867797.html
> 
> -A isn't useful here: it's applied only against the "filename" portion
> of the URL.
> 
> -I is what you want; the trouble is that the * wildcard doesn't match
> slashes (there's plans to introduce a ** wildcard, probably in 1.13). So
> unfortunately you gotta do -I'res,*/res,*/*/res' etc as needed.
> 

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Micah J. Cowan
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GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
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