Re: [Bug-wget] How to set -l to be zero? (Or how to download a single webpage and convert the absolute links to relative links with wget?)

[Peng Yu]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 04:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I need to use the option --convert-links to download only one webpage,
>> because I want to convert absolute links to relative links if the
>> links are under the host directory where the webpage is in. Since I
>> only interest in one page, I'd like to set -l be zero. But it seems
>> that if I set it to zero, wget will download everything linked from
>> this webpage.
>
> The way to say "I don't want to download recursively" isn't -r -l 0,
> it's to leave out -r altogether.

It seems that --convert-links only works if -r is specified, right? If
I want to use --convert-links, then I have to specify -r?


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Regards,
Peng