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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> wget by default will attempt to download the url in question and put it
> in a directory named whatever the main part of the url happens to be
> (i.e. www.whatever.com.) Also, wget may parse the page it receives and
> attempt to get whatever links the page points to (I don't remember off
> hand if it will do this by default) and then parse the next html page it
> receives and so on. This isn't infinite; it will only go five layers
> deep by default but can add ALOT of data to your home directory.
>
wget will only do this if you explicitly tell it to (-r option I
think). The default behavior is to retrieve only the page you asked
for. Even images embedded in the page will not be downloaded.
mg
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