Re: [Bug-wget] suggestions

[David Skalinder]

> On 04/19/2011 06:07 AM, Alexander Moser wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm missing a commandline switch for a search mask for follow up a link.
>> So, if i have more then one ZIP into a HTML file now a can only download
>> all but not one because the names of the files has revision information
>> into the filename and so i don't no about it. If i can for example use
>> "--accept-mask=myFile-*-trunk.zip" or
>> "--accept-mask=myFile-demo-?????.zip" it is possible to download the
>> right one.
>
> We already have that, it's called --accept. It does wildcarding.
>
> --
> Micah J. Cowan
> http://micah.cowan.name/
>
>

Although if understand correctly, --accept does not provide quite the
desired behavior, since it will only delete any unwanted files after first
queueing and downloading them all.  If Alexander wants to avoid following
and downloading those links in the first place, he will be unable to
because of the same issue I raised at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33044.
 Although I may be reading his question incorrectly, or missing an obvious
workaround?

DS