Dear Colleagues,Tx for the information on wget, Bill, Shaun, and John. As I would only fuck up Johns' and the rest of the websites on the internet if I downloaded and used it, and get blocked by me ISP, being a complete and utter greenhorn on Linux; and as I have enough reading to contend with on the web at the moment...I don't fink I'll bovver. Web browsing one site at a time is good enough for me...
ATB Dougie. On 06/09/14 15:42, Aftermath wrote:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WgetOn Saturday, September 6, 2014, Bill St. Clair <billstclair@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:billstclair@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:27 AM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote: Hi Shaun & Colleagues, Whilst reading up on Stallman, I came across this bit of linux or gpl software called wget in the article. On looking it up on url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget I still didn't really understand a word of it. Anyone care to take the time what it is, what it is for, is it easy to use and what advantages or disadvantages it has over any similar proprietary or free software...if there is any? Would it be worth my while installing it and learning to use it...for instance... wget is a wonderful tool for archiving web sites. I use it whenever somebody whose web content I like dies or decides to go off the net, to preserve their content. Yes, Brewster Kahle's archive.org <http://archive.org> does that, too, but I often want my own copy. wget has a huge number of options, but there are only a few you care about when archiving a web site: wget -mkc http://lisplog.org/ That downloads my lisplog.org <http://lisplog.org> web site to the directory "./lisplog.org/ <http://lisplog.org/>" on the local machine. -m is the mirror option -k says to convert links, so that any links in the downloaded files will always refer to the local copy, not the web copy -c is the continuation option. Should the first try stop prematurely, this allows you to try again without redownloading what you already have. -Bill