Re: [Bug-wget] Wildcards in -A option

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/12/2010 12:13 AM, Micah Cowan wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 03:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>    
> > wget -b -nv -r -l1 --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=6 -A.iso
> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/
> >
> > Gets all the .iso files.  This includes the CD, DVD, and netinst isos.
> >
> > So I tried:
> >
> > wget -b -nv -r -l1 --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=6 -A "disc?.iso"
> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/
> >
> > and this only got the index.txt file
> >
> > What is the proper format for the -A information?
> >      
> You want "*-disc?.iso" or similar.
>
> -A only matches suffixes when it doesn't contain any wildcards;
> otherwise, it must match the whole base filename.

Thank you.  I did not get this from the man pages.  Probably just did 
not read it carefully enough....