[ale] Presentation challenge

[Tim Watts]

On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 19:19 -0500, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Oops!  Er, well, that is handy info to know for this type of
> application.  I'll definitely save that for next time.  Thanks for
> sharing.
> 
> And, I'll be perhaps more likely to look at the man page.
> 
> Since you mentioned it, I have a question.  Many web servers don't
> allow you to list the contents of their directories, such as:
> 
> http:/podcastsite.com/specialpodcast/
> 
> Instead, you have to reference a specific file like index.html or
> jan2013podcast.mp3.
> 
> So, how would wget even be able to find all the mp3's if you didn't
> provide the full path names and file names?
> 
man wget

3rd paragraph.

> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> 
> >On 02/02/2013 04:04 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> >> I actually did that recently.  I thought I had saved an image of the
> >screen
> >> but couldn't find it.  I had 4 terminal windows open, tiled on the
> >screen.  I
> >> was using a different wget command in each window to download a bunch
> >of mp3
> >> podcast files.  As soon as one process would finish, I'd go to that
> >window
> >> and change the file name and start a new download.  That way, I was
> >able to
> >> keep 3-4 downloads going at all times and eventually get 60 files or
> >so in a
> >> couple of hours.  It's possible I could have automated it with a
> >script, but
> >> didn't know how.
> >
> >According to either google or the wget man page,
> >
> >SYNOPSIS
> >       wget [option]... [URL]...
> >....
> >-A acclist --accept acclist
> >-R rejlist --reject rejlist
> >Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to
> >accept or
> >reject. Note that if any of the wildcard characters, *, ?, [ or ],
> >appear in an
> >element of acclist or rejlist, it will be treated as a pattern, rather
> >than a
> >suffix.
> >
> >
> >But is posting man pages on this list really useful?
> >
> >$ wget -Amp3 {URL}
> >would find all the mp3 links on a specific URL and download them, in
> >turn.
> >If you want to further limit which files - perhaps there are
> >high-quality and
> >low-quality mp3 files ... then
> >
> >$ wget -Ahq.mp3 {URL}
> >would download only those files containing the "hq.mp3" string in the
> >link.
> >
> >30 seconds to read the man page saves how much time manually doing it?
> >
> >Best of all, ZERO scripting required.
> >
> >This happens over and over and over with UNIX.  The man page explains
> >how to use
> >a command efficiently.  man pages are already on your Linux systems. 
> >Why not
> >use them, especially to save time?
> >
> >Learning to read man pages took me some time, but since then, it has
> >paid off
> >1,000,000 fold.
> >
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