Hi Jan, You seem to be using the option -X incorrectly. That option is valid only for exact directory names. It does not perform any regex matching. For your usecase, you want to use the --reject-regex command instead.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021, at 22:03, Jan Nagel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to mirror a website "https://server.domain.com/"; using GNU > wget 1.21 (on Debian 12, "testing"). > > I want to exclude the directory "https://server.domain.com/foo"; and all > subdirectories of "https://server.domain.com/bar";, but I want all files > in "https://server.domain.com/bar/"; to be included. > > So I run: > wget --recursive -X "/foo,/bar/*" https://server.domain.com/ > > This doesn't do what I expect it to do: > The directory "https://server.domain.com/foo"; is excluded ... as > expected. > Files in directory "https://server.domain.com/bar/"; are included ... as > expected. > But subdirectories of "https://server.domain.com/bar/"; are included, > too. > > The man page says: > "-X list > --exclude-directories=list > Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude from > download. Elements of list may contain wildcards." > > How can I prevent wget from downloading subdirectories of > "https://server.domain.com/bar/";? > > Am I using the wildcard "*" in the wrong way? > > Thanks for your help! > > > Jan Nagel
