[TriLUG] wget, curl ???

[Robert Dale]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:52 AM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I want to capture a list of files on a website. I don't want to
> download the files. I thought at first that wget would be the best for
> this, but it appears that it will download the files.
>
> What would be the simplest way to achieve my goal?

If you don't use the recursive option, they won't download the entire site.

wget http://slashdot.org - will save the web page to a file 'index.html'

curl http://slashdot.org - will print the web page to stdout

-- 
Robert Dale