Question

I have a web directory where I store some config files. I’d like to use wget to pull those files down and maintain their current structure. For instance, the remote directory looks like:

http://mysite.com/configs/.vim/ 

.vim holds multiple files and directories. I want to replicate that on the client using wget. Can’t seem to find the right combo of wget flags to get this done. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You have to pass the -np/--no-parent option to wget (in addition to -r/--recursive, of course), otherwise it will follow the link in the directory index on my site to the parent directory. So the command would look like this:

wget --recursive --no-parent http://example.com/configs/.vim/ 

To avoid downloading the auto-generated index.html files, use the -R/--reject option:

wget -r -np -R 'index.html*' http://example.com/configs/.vim/