[TriLUG] wget, curl ???

[Chess Griffin]

James Jones 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?
> 
> jcj

A list of the files or a list of the links?  If the latter, check out 
lynx, w3m, or one of the other text browsers.  Maybe something like this 
would work:

$ lynx -dump http://www.example.com > log.txt

or if you know what types of files you want listed

$ lynx -dump http://www.example.com | grep ogg > log.txt

You can probably fine-tune the grep to eliminate the junk and capture 
just what you want.

There are probably much better ways to this, but lynx was the first 
thing that came to mind.

-- 
Chess Griffin
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