Re: [Bug-wget] --mirror sometimes ignores -np

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Mojca,

it was already reported here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20519

On the same page you can find an explanation why it behaves this way.

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Mojca Miklavec <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear list,
>
> when I try to run
>     wget -np --mirror --progress=bar -nH --cut-dirs=1 -erobots=off
> --reject="index.html*" http://www.w32tex.org/docs
> the command will try to fetch files from /icons and all other folders
> despite the "-np" switch. The behaviour gets fixed if I use
> "http://www.w32tex.org/docs/"; (if I add trailing slash), but I still
> find it very weird and I think that this should not happen.
>
> Indeed it doesn't happen on some other websites that I tried, but I'm
> not sure about the exact recipe to reproduce the behaviour.
>
> Mojca