On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > I'd like to use wget in mirror mode, but I notice that it doesn't > delete files that have been deleted at the source site. Ie.: > > First run: the source site contains "foo" and "bar", so the mirror now > contains "foo" and "bar". > > Before second run: the source site deletes "bar" and replaces it with > "ook", and the mirror is run again. > > After second run: the mirror now contains "foo", "bar", and "ook". > > This is not usually the way that mirrors work; wget should delete > "bar" if it's not at the site.
i don't disagree on your definition of "mirrors", but in Unix (and in GNU) its usually customary not to delete files without user permission. http://www.google.com/search?q=wget+archives+delete+mirror+site%3Ageocrawler.com