[GLLUG] first try using wget

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 27 June 2002 16:01, after a long battle with technology, 
Brian Hoort wrote:
> I just tried to use wget for the first time [...] Looking at the man 
> page, I find -r for recursion. So
> next I tried: $ wget -r http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
> and it downloaded what I wanted, and started getting everything on
> their whole site, www.oreilly.com as well as
> international.oreilly.com.
>
> Before I do that again, what do I do to limit it to a certain folder?

The -np option (don't ascend to the parent directory) looks like what 
you want.  It's the last option you see when you execute "wget -help".

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