Guru Usage

• If you wish Wget to keep a mirror of a page (or FTP subdirectories), use `--mirror' (`-m'), which is the shorthand for `-r -N'. You can put Wget in the crontab file asking it to recheck a site each Sunday:

  crontab
  0 0 * * 0 wget --mirror ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/ -o /home/me/weeklog
  

• You may wish to do the same with someone's home page. But you do not want to download all those images--you're only interested in HTML.

  wget --mirror -A.html http://www.w3.org/
  

• But what about mirroring the hosts networkologically close to you? It seems so awfully slow because of all that DNS resolving. Just use `-D' (See section Domain Acceptance).

  wget -rN -Dsrce.hr http://www.srce.hr/
  

  Now Wget will correctly find out that `regoc.srce.hr' is the same as `www.srce.hr', but will not even take into consideration the link to `www.mit.edu'.
• You have a presentation and would like the dumb absolute links to be converted to relative? Use `-k':

  wget -k -r URL
  

• You would like the output documents to go to standard output instead of to files? OK, but Wget will automatically shut up (turn on `--quiet') to prevent mixing of Wget output and the retrieved documents.

  wget -O - http://jagor.srce.hr/ http://www.srce.hr/
  

  You can also combine the two options and make weird pipelines to retrieve the documents from remote hotlists:

  wget -O - http://cool.list.com/ | wget --force-html -i -
  

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