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bug #34325: --exclude-directories wildcards do not work properly

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Sun 18 Sep 2011 07:49:16 AM UTC, comment #2: Grr, I dislike markup. Anyway, using + instead of the asterisk: … -A +.txt -X +/2011/+	Martin F. Krafft <madduck>
Sun 18 Sep 2011 07:48:26 AM UTC, comment #1: The command-line got mangled and should have been … -A \.txt -X \/2011/\* …	Martin F. Krafft <madduck>
Sun 18 Sep 2011 07:46:52 AM UTC, original submission: Try this (stupid example): wget -m -np -A .txt -X /2011/* http://www.debian.org/News/ wget still traverses the entire 2011 hierarchy, even though it should really just ignore it. As a reminder, here is the info page entry for -X: `-X LIST' `--exclude-directories=LIST' Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude from download (see "Directory-Based Limits"). Elements of LIST may contain wildcards. It says "exclude from download", which may mean that it should still crawl the contents for links to contents outside of the listed directories. However, in the context of its counterpart -I, which says "follow when downloading", I think the intended use is to not follow links into the listed directories.	Martin F. Krafft <madduck>

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