Re: [Bug-wget] Recursive download: Possible to exclude filenames?

[Todd Pattist]

address@hidden wrote:
> E.g. I want to download a large site filled with
> articles and indexes for these, but each article also
> have a page with comments (comments.php) that I want
> to exclude.  Well actually, they're in the form like
> "comments.php?sid=454&cid=27"...  The point is, I want
> to download everything but these.
>   
From the manual:
to download all files except the ones beginning with `bjork', use `wget 
-R "bjork*"'. The quotes are to
prevent expansion by the shell.

wget -R "comments.php" should work