Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages

[Shawn Singh]

I guess I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but when I want to
get a local copy of a website I do this:

nohup wget -m http://www.someUrL.org &

Shawn

On 12/2/05, Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from a
> netscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (through
> khttrack), pavuk and wget, but none of them work. httrack and pavuk seem
> to
> claim they can do the job, but they can't, or at least not in any way an
> ordinary mortal could be expected to work out. They do things like
> pretending
> to download hundreds of files without actually saving them to disk,
> crashing
> suddenly and frequently, and popping up messages saying that I haven't
> contributed enough code to their project to expect the thing to work
> properly. I don't want to do anything hideously complicated. I just want
> to
> make local copies of some bookmarked pages. What tools should I be using?
>
> I would be happy to use a windows tool in wine if it worked. I would be
> happy
> to reboot into Windows if I could get this job done.
>
> One option would be to feed wget a list of urls. The trouble is I don't
> know
> how to turn an html bookmark file into a simple list of urls. I imagine I
> could do it in sed if I spent enough time to learn sed, but my afternoon
> has
> gone now and I don't have the time.
>
> Many thanks
> Robert
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Shawn Singh