File presence checking with -O -

[Victor Porton]

Silly enough, wget 1.8.2 (and 1.5.3) checks whether the file is already 
present and denies to download it, even if -O - option is specified.

mirroring question

[DennisBagley]

ok - am using wget to mirror an ftp site [duh]
and would like it not only to keep an up to 
date copy of the files [which it does beautifuly]
but also remove files that are no-longer on the ftp server

?? Is this possible ???

tia
den

Re: mirroring question

[Max Bowsher]

DennisBagley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ok - am using wget to mirror an ftp site [duh]
 and would like it not only to keep an up to
 date copy of the files [which it does beautifuly]
 but also remove files that are no-longer on the ftp server
 
 ?? Is this possible ???

Use a perl script.


Max.