[plug] Weird Wget Usage

[William Kenworthy]

try using squid with an addzapper, or maybe junkbuster and retrieve
through them using wget?

BillK


On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 18:11, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20040816100141.93E7D79A6 at spark.plug.linux.org.au>
> on Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:01:41PM +0800, weirdo at tigris.org wrote:
> > I am looking at mirror a site that has quite a few [ads].
> > Unfortunately, the [ads] are on the same server. Does anyone know of a
> > way to get wget to only get images from certain director[ies] and
> > exclude the rest?
> 
> It may depend on *where* the ads are, relative to the content that you
> desire. One options is --no-parent, which will either be perfect or
> useless for you. Alternatively, there's the -X ("exclude directories")
> option. There is also the -R option (filename patterns to reject). My
> understanding is that this should all be obvious from the wget manual,
> although I have no measure of the applicability of these options for
> your situation.
> 
> > I am on dialup
> 
> I am onNO CARRIER
> 
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