Recursive Retrieval Options

`-r'

`--recursive'

Turn on recursive retrieving. See section Recursive Retrieval for more details.

`-l depth'

`--level=depth'

Specify recursion maximum depth level depth (See section Recursive Retrieval). The default maximum depth is 5.

`--delete-after'

This option tells Wget to delete every single file it downloads, after having done so. It is useful for pre-fetching popular pages through proxy, e.g.:

wget -r -nd --delete-after http://whatever.com/~popular/page/

The `-r' option is to retrieve recursively, and `-nd' not to create directories.

`-k'

`--convert-links'

Convert the non-relative links to relative ones locally. Only the references to the documents actually downloaded will be converted; the rest will be left unchanged. Note that only at the end of the download can Wget know which links have been downloaded. Because of that, much of the work done by `-k' will be performed at the end of the downloads.

`-m'

`--mirror'

Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to `-r -N -l inf -nr'.

`-nr'

`--dont-remove-listing'

Don't remove the temporary `.listing' files generated by FTP retrievals. Normally, these files contain the raw directory listings received from FTP servers. Not removing them can be useful to access the full remote file list when running a mirror, or for debugging purposes.

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