I'd suggest using your original accept, and not using a reject. You know specifically what you want, and all the rest will be ignored.
Jim On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, TeeJay wrote: > Jim Wright <jwright <at> unavco.org> writes: > > > > > Wildcards don't work is the accepted wisdom. I just realized that I > > have been using downloads of the form "--accept AB06*a.T00,AB06*a.BNX" > > for a long time and it works fine for me. Should it not? > > > > Looking at the lines below, the reject encompasses all of the accept, > > so if reject is applied after accept, this may also explain the problem. > > > > Jim > > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > > > > > > accept = "*06*BATCH*VAT.CGL" > > > > reject = "*.CGL","*.CHK" > > > > > > you are using wildcard to specify which files to accept or reject, and > > > wget > > > does not support them. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Good spot there Jim! My thanks. :-)) > OK. > Changed reject variable to remove "*.CGL" and modified "*.CHK" to simply CHK. > Also amended the accept variable to simply CGL - this is not really what I > want but I'm willing to try anything to first get a hit before I try to > whittle it down further. > > Happy to say I'm now getting a hit - well actually tons of them!! as the site > contains files with names "*BatchXXXX.CGL" as well as "*BatchXXXXVAT.CGL". > > It is only the latter files that I want. > > Any helpful hints? Or am going to have to resort to writing a batch file to > sift the data? > > > As always, thanks for your knowlegdable inputs. > > TeeJay. > >
