[TriLUG] wget, curl ???

[James Jones]

Robert,

Thanks for the information, but I don't want to download ( save ) any
pages, just want a list of the files there.

jcj

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:52 AM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I want to capture a list of files on a website. I don't want to
>> download the files. I thought at first that wget would be the best for
>> this, but it appears that it will download the files.
>>
>> What would be the simplest way to achieve my goal?
>
> If you don't use the recursive option, they won't download the entire site.
>
> wget http://slashdot.org - will save the web page to a file 'index.html'
>
> curl http://slashdot.org - will print the web page to stdout
>
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