how to use the wget command to copy whole website to local

[Mark C. Allman]

On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 19:06 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> Quoting yujian <yujian4newsgroup at gmail.com>:
> 
> > 于 2012/9/26 9:45, Dave Stevens 写道:
> >> Quoting yujian <yujian4newsgroup at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> I want to copy a website to my local disk. I use the command wget -r
> >>> www.example.com, but I find that only html copyed.
> >>
> >> what else were you expecting to be copied? And have you read the  
> >> man page? Or maybe an on-line tutorial?
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
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> >> All the files in the website,  such as pdf, doc and exe file.  I  
> >> saw the man page, so that I use wget -r to try to download it.
> 
> maybe it would help if you tell us the command line you used.
> 
> D

Looks to me like the the command the OP used was:
    wget -r <url>

I understand the original question but I've never tried to download a
complete site.  The "-m" and "-p" switches look interesting.  I'd first
take a few minutes to work through the "man" page.  Looks like lots of
good documentation there.

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