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Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp
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Linux Shell Scripting Bootcamp

by James K Lewis
July 2017
Beginner
208 pages
3h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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wget and recursion

The wget program can also be used to download the contents of an entire website by using the recursive (-r) option.

For an example look at the following screenshot:

wget and recursion

The no verbose (-nv) option was used to limit the output. After the wget command completed the more command was used to view the contents of the log. Depending on the number of files the output might be very long.

When using wget you may run into unexpected issues. It may not get any files, or it may get some but not all of them. It might even fail without any reasonable error message. If this happens check the man page (man wget) very carefully. There may be an option ...

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