Re: [Bug-wget] Get Newest File Only?

[Micah Cowan]

Robert P Dale wrote:
> I'm doing a check of
> 
> http://motherlode.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/ldm/genweb?native/radar/level3/N0R/GRR/20
> 090212
> 
> every 5 minutes to grab the newest file only, with filenames that always
> change (i.e. timestamps are never the same day to day or even hour to hour.)
> If I do wget -r -N it does the job, but it seems to take a lengthy process
> to check each and every file. Is there a way to tell it to just compare
> what's newest on the server and compare to my local side?

Are you asking whether there's a way to ask the server, "What are the
newest files, so I can check whether they're newer than what I have"? If
so, then no.

-mjc