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Not getting the wildcards to work in wget


From: Cherise Haywood
Subject: Not getting the wildcards to work in wget
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 15:39:06 +0000

Good Day!

I am trying to download specific .zip files from this website: 
https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/ROADS/

I only want the files with *_72*.zip to be downloaded to a copy of the 
directories it comes from on my system.

I have used several iterations of wget to yield only the folders ( directories) 
being formed, but absolutely no data being downloaded.

Here are copies of the code I have used:

OPTION 1: wget --no-parent --relative --recursive --level=2 --accept=zip 
--mirror -A .zip https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/ROADS/

OPTION 2: wget --no-parent --relative --recursive --level=2 --accept=zip 
--mirror -A *_72*.zip --time-stamps 
https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/ROADS/

OPTION 3: wget --no-parent --relative --recursive --level=2 --accept=zip 
--mirror -A _72 https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/ROADS

I also did the wget - - help command, however none of the switches could assist 
in downloading the specific files from the directory.

I have attached error imgs, I captured!

Can you assist?

Best Regards,
Cherise

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