Re: command prompt closes immediately after opening

2005-02-12 Thread Heiko Selber
Please, be polite... To "learninglovinghelping" (or are you "LearningGrowingSharing"?): wget is a command line tool and as such, needs some command line options to work. If you simply click on it, it complains about a lack thereof and exits. Try using it from a command prompt. Welcome to the exci

Re: Can wget remove local files that are no longer on the remote server?

2004-09-22 Thread Heiko Selber
I wrote: I use wget to mirror the contents of a remote directory (containing patches for SuSE Linux, if you want to know the details). It works quite well, but I can't find an option that makes wget remove files locally that are no longer on the server. Example: If the file foo-1.2.3-45.rpm is

Bug in -np option

2004-09-16 Thread Heiko Selber
There is a bug in the -np option ("don't ascend to the parent directory") of wget 1.9.1: When the URL ends in a slash ("/"), it works OK, but when the slash is missing, wget apparently doesn't care about the option and happily continues above the parent directory. Compare these two lines (only

Can wget remove local files that are no longer on the remote server?

2004-09-08 Thread Heiko Selber
Hello, I use wget to mirror the contents of a remote directory (containing patches for SuSE Linux, if you want to know the details). It works quite well, but I can't find an option that makes wget remove files locally that are no longer on the server. Example: If the file foo-1.2.3-45.rpm is re