[plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory

Ben Jensz plug at jensz.id.au
Fri Aug 6 13:52:21 WST 2004


James Devenish wrote:

> Will you *ever* need to download a file twice? If you can effectively
>
>presume "no", then you need not worry about timestamps: you need only
>worry about existence. Then, wget has an -nc option which (if I'm right)
>will make it skip over filenames that already exist locally.
>
>  
>
Yeah, that does do what I wanted it to do... I read that bit in the man 
page several times too and just didn't seem to take it in.... :P

Thanks for that. :)


/ Ben




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