Joseph L. Casale wrote, On 07/28/2010 04:26 PM: > I am trying to mirror a directory using wget and the resulting files as > expected are taking the name of the string in the url after the last "/". > > Anyone know a way around this? I am using the mirror option so I don't > have to keep track of what to get making it simple. > > Thanks! > jlc I am having a bit of trouble parsing what you wrote, but I think you are saying you are issuing something like: wget --mirror http://example.com/subdir1/subdir2/fileiwant and getting at your location ./fileiwant which is a little confusing, because I would have expected you to get (with just the --mirror option): ./example.com/subdir1/subdir2/fileiwant please give an example command and output received and desired. to get ./fileiwant from my example url above I think you would have to do: wget --mirror ---cut-dirs=2 -no-host-directories \ http://example.com/subdir1/subdir2/fileiwant -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter