[plug] Web mirroring software

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ben Jensz wrote:

> 
> David Buddrige wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to locate software for linux that downloads an entire 
> > website to your local hard-drive by following each of the links on the 
> > site.  I've been searching google for this, but so far have been 
> > unable to locate such software.  Does anyone know of such a tool for 
> > linux?
> > thanks
> > David Buddrige.
> >
> >
> wget can do this can't it?
> 
> Never used it to do that exactly myself, but I think I've read something 
> about that in the docs before.
> 
> 
> / Ben
> 

In the past, I have used wget, to download a website, with all its 
embedded websites and web pages within those websites (many, many, 
megabytes). I did it with RH 6.2, about a couple of years ago. Useful 
for downloading unit information (including some coursenotes), from 
within a universtity IT department :)

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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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