Re: Wget patches for ".files"

2005-08-19 Thread Carl Ponder
Carl Ponder wrote: I just started using "wget" to recursively fetch directories, and was disappointed to find that it didn't get files like ".profile" that start with ".". Mauro Tortonesi's response: this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses the LIST -a FTP

RE: Wget patches for ".files"

2005-08-19 Thread Tony Lewis
Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses the > LIST -a FTP command, which AFAIK is not supported by all FTP servers. As I recall, that's why the patch was not accepted. However, it would be useful if there were some command line option to

Re: Wget patches for ".files"

2005-08-19 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Friday 19 August 2005 11:50 am, Carl G. Ponder wrote: > I just started using "wget" to recursively fetch directories, and was > disappointed to find that it didn't get files like ".profile" that start > with ".". I see there are fixes posted in the web at sites like > > http://www.unixwiz.

Wget patches for ".files"

2005-08-19 Thread Carl G. Ponder
I just started using "wget" to recursively fetch directories, and was disappointed to find that it didn't get files like ".profile" that start with ".". I see there are fixes posted in the web at sites like http://www.unixwiz.net/patches/wget-1.9.1-dotfiles-patch.txt http://www

RE: Test a websites availability

2005-08-19 Thread Arthur DiSegna
Thanks wget --spider -o log.txt -i test.html worked for me... -Original Message- From: Frank McCown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:31 AM To: wget@sunsite.dk Cc: Arthur DiSegna Subject: Re: Test a websites availability You can use the --spider option to not do

Re: Test a websites availability

2005-08-19 Thread Frank McCown
You can use the --spider option to not download the file and use the -o to write the wget ouput to a log file. Then parse the log file and see if it contains a 200 OK response. Frank Arthur DiSegna wrote: Hello, I have been looking around and haven't found an answer yet... Is it possi