wget syntax

[Frank Hagan]

Need some guidance from any linux gurus out there. None of my reference books are helping, although it may be because of a security issue on the server I am trying wget files from.

wget -nH -r --cut-dirs=1 http://www.mydomain.tld/images/

I tried several iterations of the above, and would get the entire site, rather than just getting the /images/ directory. The third time I tried, I was somehow higher in the file directories, and slurping files from the root somehow that were not in the site itself (it is a shared server, but a IIS box).

Anyway, what I'm trying to do during a SSH session is copy all the files from the URL into the current directory I'm in.

[Ihost]

Not sure if this helps but this is the syntax that I use to get files from a remote server when moving accounts to or from Dathorn.

From the public_html directory,
"wget -r -nc ftp://usernameassword@ftp.mine.com/httpdocs/".

There was a really good discussion on this on the old forums, so hopefully the technical gurus will also jump in on this one.

[openbox]

"wget -nc -r http://mydomain.tld/images" should work.

[Andy]

This should be added to FAQ or sticky. Handy to know