[Bug-wget] Re: wget ignoring wildcards with exclude directories?

[Micah Cowan]

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enb wrote:
> When executing wget with the --mirror option and
> --exclude-directories='*foobar*' doesn't seem to exclude any directories
> that have foobar in their name. Is there a trick to getting exclude
> directories to work?

Hi! Please post support requests to the address@hidden mailing list.

The * don't match directory separators, so that pattern will only match
directory names at the root level. Unfortunately, Wget doesn't currently
have a way to match arbitrary sets of directories (a la Vim's **), so
you may have to do
- --exclude-directories='*foobar*,*/*foobar*,*/*/*foobar*'...

- --
HTH,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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