Re: [Bug-wget] wget recursive download

[Micah Cowan]

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Michael wrote:
> How do I get wget to down type "text/*" only?
> 
> Even when I exclude unwanted file types (which there seems to be an unlimited 
> number of), it still downloads things like .pdf before deleting them, thus 
> wasting bandwidth.
> 
> I've tried an accept list, though this seems to ignore files like 
> filename.htm?id=123456....
> 
> Can someone provide some guidance please?

Unfortunately, Wget currently lacks such functionality. It is planned
for a future release.

Wget also ignores accept/reject lists on filenames that "look" like
they're HTML (basically, they end with .htm or .html).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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