[mdlug] Evil URLs at OpenSuSE

[Carl T. Miller]

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>     wget -r \
> http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11%3A/xfce/SUSE_Linux_10.0/i586/
>
> still goes crazy. Before I stopped it this command had pulled down 1170
> files in 226 directories. I just wanted to avoid the "right click and
> select save as" drudgery 50 time for 50 files to get these files. The
> files I wanted were included in the haul, I just can't figure out why I
> was getting all that extra stuff.

Ray, I took a look and one of the links on the page goes to
the parent directory...which would explain why it's pulling
down all the files.  Have you tried using the --no-parent flag?
That might prevent it from trying to get the parent directory
and its contents.

c