[plug] wget query

[Bret Busby]

Michael Hunt wrote:
> 
> So what is the command line you are using.

wget -r -c http://www.domainname/~username

I had also used the -Ddomainname switch, to avoid downloading from outside the
domain.

> 
> Form my past experience the following should work (unless there is something
> wrong at the server end:
> 
> wget -c http://www.webhost.com/~username/index.html
> 

The "index.html", as in using the URL to access a web site using a browser,
appears to be redundant.

> (The -c is for continuous wget. i.e. if there is a failure continue from
> where it left off).
> 
That's what I thought; however, it seems to be start again from scratch, as it
is downloading material that it has already downloaded. However, in another
download session, I (after having checked the man entry again), am now using the
additional switch -nc, to prevent further duplicate downloading.

Bret Busby
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