Alan Thomas wrote: > I am having trouble getting the files I want using a wildcard specifier...
There are no options on the command line for what you're attempting to do. Neither wget nor the server you're contacting understand "*.pdf" in a URI. In the case of wget, it is designed to read web pages (HTML files) and then collect a list of resources that are referenced in those pages, which it then retrieves. In the case of the web server, it is designed to return individual objects on request (X.pdf or Y.pdf, but not *.pdf). Some web servers will return a list of files if you specify a directory, but you already tried that in your first use case. Try coming at this from a different direction. If you were going to manually download every PDF from that directory, how would YOU figure out the names of each one? Is there a web page that contains a list somewhere? If so, point wget there. Hope that helps. Tony PS) Jens was mistaken when he said that https requires you to log into the server. Some servers may require authentication before returning information over a secure (https) channel, but that is not a given.
