How do I mirror a directory with wget without creating parent directories?
I had a similar requirement and the following combination seems to be the perfect choice:
In the below example, all the files in http://url/dir1/dir2 (alone) are downloaded to local directory /dest/dir
wget -nd -np -P /dest/dir --recursive http://url/dir1/dir2
Thanks @ffledgling for the hint on "-nd"
For the above example:
wget -nd -np --mirror --user=x --password=x ftp://ftp.site.com/folder/subfolder/evendeeper
Snippets from manual:
-nd
--no-directories
Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively. With this option turned on, all files will get saved to the current directory, without clobbering (if a name shows up more than once, the
filenames will get extensions .n).
-np
--no-parent
Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded.
-np
(no parent) option will probably do what you want, tied in with -L 1
(I think, don't have a wget install before me), which limits the recursion to one level.
EDIT. ok. gah... maybe I should wait until I've had coffee.. There is a --cut
or similar option, which allows you to "cut" a specified number of directories from the output path, so for /a/b/c/d
, a cut of 2 would force wget to create c/d
on your local machine
For a path like: ftp.site.com/a/b/c/d
-nH
would download all files to the directory a/b/c/d
in the current directory, and -nH --cut-dirs=3
would download all files to the directory d
in the current directory.