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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers wildcards NOT Post 302146392 by C3000 on Tuesday 20th of November 2007 09:42:46 AM
Old 11-20-2007
I found the answer to my question here.

ITworld.com - UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION - Trimming Tar Files

Apologies I should have read the man page a little more closely before posting.

Ed
 

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MIRRORTOOL(1)							OMT documentation.						     MIRRORTOOL(1)

NAME
mirrortool.pl - OpaL Mirror Tool (OMT) DESCRIPTION
Creates a mirror of a webpage. It has a number of features such as link rewriting and more. (See the options below). USAGE
mirrortool.pl [options] [url] [options] [url] [...] OPTIONS
--images : Include <img src=xxx>:s in the download. (default) --noimages : Do not include <img src=xxx>:s in the download. --depth n : Maximum recursion depth. (default 1) --store "regexp" : Files matching regexp are actually stored locally. : It is possible to | separate (with or). --rewrite "from=>to" : Urls are rewritten using this rules. : It is possible to | separate (with or). : Do not rewrite the dir, because that it will affect : later lookup. Have to fix this sometime. --what "regexp" : Files matching regexp are downloaded and traversed. : It is possible to | separate (with or). --dir basedir : Where to store local files. --nohostcheck : Do not check if url points to other host. --notreecheck : Do not check if url points to other dirtree. --force : Overwrite all files. --debug : Print debug-messages. --retry n : Number of times an url will be retried (default 1) --auth user:pass : use Basic Authentication --proxy url : Use a proxy server (like http://u:p@localhost/). --help : Print this text. AUTHOR
Ola Lundqvist <opal@lysator.liu.se> SEE ALSO
mirrortool.pl(1) perl v5.8.8 2002-04-15 MIRRORTOOL(1)
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