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Reputation: 9018

wget to exclude certain naming structures

My company has a local production server I want to download files from that have a certain naming convention. However, I would like to exclude certain elements based on a portion of the name. Example:

When wget is ran I want it to bypass all folders and files with "1234". I have researched and ran across ‘--exclude list’ but that appears to be only for directories and ‘reject = rejlist’ which appears to be for file extensions. Am I missing something in the manual here

EDIT: this should work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 252

Answers (1)

twalberg
twalberg

Reputation: 62489

wget has options -A <accept_list> and -R <reject_list>, which from the manual page, appear to allow either suffixes or patterns. These are separate from the -I <include_dirs> and -X <exclude_dirs> options, which, as you note, only deal with directories. Given the example you list, something along the lines of -A "folder client_1234*" -A "file 1234.*" might be what you need, although I'm not entirely sure that's exactly the naming convention you're after...

Upvotes: 1

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