[lug] Problem with wget

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2005-11-04 17:14 Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use wget to retrieve all the tgr*.zip  that are behind the 
> named US states links on the bottom of this page at the Census Bureau:  
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2004se/tgr2004se.html. But wget 
> has a baffling array of switches and I'm not hitting on the right 
> combination. I'm getting everything BUT those files it seems.
> 
> Does anyone know if wget can even do this and if so, what command-line 
> switches I need to use?

To recursively retrieve all the files in the colorado directory, with a
limit on BW, and a random wait between retrieving files, logging to
'logfile':
   wget -nc --progress=bar --limit-rate=20k --random-wait -nd --recursive
   -l 1  -o logfile http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2004se/CO

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