1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have noticed a lot of expensive books appearing online so I have decided to copy them to CD. I was going to write a program in java to do this, but remembered that wget GNU program some of you guys were talking about. Instead of spending two hours or so writing a program to do this.... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am trying to ftp files/dirs with wget. i am having an issue where the path always takes me to my home dir even when i specify something else. For example: wget -m ftp://USER:PASS@IP_ADDRESS/Path/on/remote/box ...but if that path on the remote box isn't in my home dir it doesn't change to... (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm having a problem in retreiving a web page that I'm requires a user name * password and then I need to post some data. I've used a screen scrapping program to figure out what data is required. My question, can I use wget w/ the --http-user & --http-passwd flags along with --post-file or... (0 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello there, İ want to ask a very simple question. I want to read the output messages of wget both in terminal and also put them into a text file. i know that by using -o flag, i can log the messages into a text file but then i won't be able to see them on terminal. I'd appreciate any help... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can you tell me how to download the directory tree just starting from "project1/" in this URL? "https://somesite.com/projects/t/project1/" This command does not seem to do what I want as it downloads also files from the upper hierarchy: wget --no-check-certificate --http-user=user... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I have an url like this https://www.unix.com/help/ In this help directory, I have more than 300 directories which contains file or files. So, the 300 directories are like this http://unix.com/help/ dir1 file1 dir2 file2 dir3 file3_1 file3_2... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can I download only *.zip and *.rar files from a website <index> who has multiple directories in root parent directory? I need wget to crawl every directory and download only zip and rar files. Is there anyway I could do it? (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can wget be used to goto a site and piped into a .gz extrated command? wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/clinvar/vcf_GRCh37 | gunzip -d clinvar_20150603.vcf.gz (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to download a zip file from my the below US govt link. https://www.sam.gov/SAMPortal/extractfiledownload?role=WW&version=SAM&filename=SAM_PUBLIC_MONTHLY_20160207.ZIP I only have wget utility installed on the server. When I use the below command, I am getting error 403... (2 Replies)