How to download filenames only?
Hi! Perhaps someone can help me craft a wget command that will accomplish the following. I want to mirror a website but I only want to download the directory structure and names of each file. I do not want to download the files themselves, but I need the names. A zero byte copy of each file would be ideal. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Maybe it's not even possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
Re: How to download filenames only?
I presume wget needs to actually download the files otherwise
how will it know what other files to link to (if it's a html
file). However if you don't mind downloading the file
and just want a 0 byte structure afterwards you could
do something like this.
find -type f -exec dd count=0 if=/dev/zero of='{}' \;
However you'll have to download the file this way.
Tushar
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:56:02PM -0700, wierzbowski wrote:
Hi! Perhaps someone can help me craft a wget command that will
accomplish the following. I want to mirror a website but I only want
to download the directory structure and names of each file. I do not
want to download the files themselves, but I need the names. A zero
byte copy of each file would be ideal. I can't seem to figure out how
to do this. Maybe it's not even possible. Any suggestions would be
appreciated. Thanks!
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From: wierzbowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Jun 2, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: How to download filenames only?
To: Tushar Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you (and Tony) for your suggestions. However, downloading the
files in their entirety and then truncating them is not an option for
me because most the files in question are massive (approaching 4GB
each). What I'm trying to do is create a skeleton of the structure so
that I can then selectively download just the files that are
necessary.
On 6/2/05, Tushar Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I presume wget needs to actually download the files otherwise
how will it know what other files to link to (if it's a html
file). However if you don't mind downloading the file
and just want a 0 byte structure afterwards you could
do something like this.
find -type f -exec dd count=0 if=/dev/zero of='{}' \;
However you'll have to download the file this way.
Tushar
