Wget list files without downloading

Asked 7 years, 2 months ago. Active 7 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 4k times. Any ideas? Improve this question. How is wget supposed to crawl a site without looking at the html pages to find all the links? Good question. What I mean is just do not download the url that matches.

But you're right, it still will download, even in memory. That way it won't even write them to disk, it'll just drop them from the get go. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. How can I know how many files matched? Programming This forum is for all programming questions. The question does not have to be directly related to Linux and any language is fair game. Are there any options to increase the speed? Any ideas on alternative methods to get the same results?

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Do you have any script? It would be good if you post the script and then ask the question. Add an echo statement after done. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The simplest way would be to check if the file exists. Using your current script:! Improve this answer. Or you could just do if! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.