This is going to (hopefully) be part of a much larger article on moving web sites from one host to another. Until then, I leave with just a simple command to download almost all of an entire webpage to a local directory…
<code>wget -rnp -nd www.example.com</code>
Or, if we want to download the same files, but store them in a directory created for each host…
<code>wget -rnp www.example.com</code>
Well, that’s all for now. As this project moves forward for me, you should see more.
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Love the advice. Thank you.
I think a better explanation for what -nd is what is “do not keep the hierarchy of directories just put all files from anywhere specified into the single destination directory. A note, files with same name will have extra extensions appended.”. The np option is probably what I’ve been looking for since it usually downloads more than what I need. Some sites I have mirrored where full sites in a sub directory but had images in a higher directory. I had to go back after mirroring and readjust paths because I was moving the site to it’s own domain in root. That’s a pain.