[prog] downloading a directory from the web?

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:22:19AM +0100, Caroline Johnston wrote:
> I need to download a whole tree of files starting from a directory listing
> webpage. Is there an easy way to do this? There are hundreds of them and
> they aren't helpfully named, so I'd like to preserve the directory
> structure. I'm trying to do it with perl's WWW::Mechanize module, by it
> seems like the sort of thing that ought to be easier, or that someone else
> will already have done. Any advice?

Um, use "wget"?  It can download things recursively, preserving
directory structure (or not, if you so choose).  There's lots of
options, so read the man page carefully.

Kathryn Andersen
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