Re: [Bug-wget] Stange behaviour

[Jānis]

Citēts Ángel González <address@hidden>
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:27:53 +0100:
..
> Not a bug (and not wget's fault), albeit surprising for new users.
> When you write *pdf* in a command line, your shell will expand it to
> any files containing «pdf». You can view this behavior by executing
>  echo *pdf*
>
> So when you run
>  wget -r -l1 -A *pdf* …
>
> wget is really receiving a command like
>   wget -r -l1 -A resume.pdf paper.pdf http://example.com

Till now i assumed that any string behind -A is treated like a mask
for the files to be retrieved from the remote server. I
absolutelyforgot about the shell

Thanks!

Janis

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