Re: slightly OT, need help with wget, was RE:php web spider

Why not just use the -O option and specify the drectory name to download to: wget http://www.foo.com/~someguy -0/some/local/dir/www.foo.com/someguy Marc Swanson wrote: > > A while ago I posted a question regarding web spiders written in PHP. I > then decided on using wget to do the page retrieval to save some time. It > has worked great except for one annoying case that I can't seem to fix. > > The problem comes when I try to pull pages that contain a tilde '~' > charachter in the URL, a directory will be created on the local filesystem > with a %7E instead of a ~. EG if I'm trying to download > http://www.foo.com/~someguy, my directory tree will look like > /some/local/dir/www.foo.com/%7Esomeguy. I've poured over the docs for wget > (http://www.gnu.org/manual/wget/ ) with no aparent command line option to > fix this. It is rather annoying since the links on the pages that are > downloaded are set to point to /some/local/dir/www.foo.com/~someguy but that > dir does not exist! I tried writing a hack to examine the file system after > the wget call but when I try to do a readdir on a directory containing a %7E > instead of a ~, readdir shows it as a ~?????? What gives? > > Any other suggestions? > > Thanks (and sorry for the off topic WOB) > > -Marc- > #/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/# > #Marc Swanson | \|||/ # > #MSwanson Consulting | /o o\ # > #Phone: (603)868-1721 |-ooo----O----ooo-# > #Fax: (603)868-1730 | Solutions in: # > #marcswanson@mediaone.net | 'PHP 'Perl # > # | 'SQL 'C++ # > # | 'HTML 'Sh/Csh# > # http://www.mswanson.com | 'Javascript # > #/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/# > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net