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Advanced Usage
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   * You have a file that contains the URLs you want to download?  Use
     the `-i' switch:

          wget -i FILE

     If you specify `-' as file name, the URLs will be read from
     standard input.

   * Create a five levels deep mirror image of the GNU web site, with
     the same directory structure the original has, with only one try
     per document, saving the log of the activities to `gnulog':

          wget -r http://www.gnu.org/ -o gnulog

   * The same as the above, but convert the links in the HTML files to
     point to local files, so you can view the documents off-line:

          wget --convert-links -r http://www.gnu.org/ -o gnulog

   * Retrieve only one HTML page, but make sure that all the elements
     needed for the page to be displayed, such as inline images and
     external style sheets, are also downloaded.  Also make sure the
     downloaded page references the downloaded links.

          wget -p --convert-links http://www.server.com/dir/page.html

     The HTML page will be saved to `www.server.com/dir/page.html', and
     the images, stylesheets, etc., somewhere under `www.server.com/',
     depending on where they were on the remote server.

   * The same as the above, but without the `www.server.com/' directory.
     In fact, I don't want to have all those random server directories
     anyway--just save _all_ those files under a `download/'
     subdirectory of the current directory.

          wget -p --convert-links -nH -nd -Pdownload \
               http://www.server.com/dir/page.html

   * Retrieve the index.html of `www.lycos.com', showing the original
     server headers:

          wget -S http://www.lycos.com/

   * Save the server headers with the file, perhaps for post-processing.

          wget -s http://www.lycos.com/
          more index.html

   * Retrieve the first two levels of `wuarchive.wustl.edu', saving them
     to `/tmp'.

          wget -r -l2 -P/tmp ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/

   * You want to download all the GIFs from a directory on an HTTP
     server.  You tried `wget http://www.server.com/dir/*.gif', but that
     didn't work because HTTP retrieval does not support globbing.  In
     that case, use:

          wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.gif http://www.server.com/dir/

     More verbose, but the effect is the same.  `-r -l1' means to
     retrieve recursively (Note: Recursive Retrieval), with maximum
     depth of 1.  `--no-parent' means that references to the parent
     directory are ignored (Note: Directory-Based Limits), and
     `-A.gif' means to download only the GIF files.  `-A "*.gif"' would
     have worked too.

   * Suppose you were in the middle of downloading, when Wget was
     interrupted.  Now you do not want to clobber the files already
     present.  It would be:

          wget -nc -r http://www.gnu.org/

   * If you want to encode your own username and password to HTTP or
     FTP, use the appropriate URL syntax (Note: URL Format).

          wget ftp://hniksic:mypassword@unix.server.com/.emacs

     Note, however, that this usage is not advisable on multi-user
     systems because it reveals your password to anyone who looks at
     the output of `ps'.

   * You would like the output documents to go to standard output
     instead of to files?

          wget -O - http://jagor.srce.hr/ http://www.srce.hr/

     You can also combine the two options and make pipelines to
     retrieve the documents from remote hotlists:

          wget -O - http://cool.list.com/ | wget --force-html -i -