How to use regular expressions in wget for rejecting files?

Question

I am trying to download the contents of a website using wget tool. I used -R option to reject some file types. but there are some other files which I don\'t want to download. Th

Answer 1

You can not specify a regular expression in the wget -R key, but you can specify a template (like file template in a shell).

The answer looks like:

$ wget -R 'newsbrief-*' ...

You can also use ? and symbol classes [].

For more information see info wget.