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I'm using 

wget -mirror https://www.website.com/sub/folders/here/

and want to download all of the content in the subfolders of the current location i.e. "/here/" . But instead, this command starts from 

https://www.website.com/

and downloads everything that is a subfolder of the website, meaning not only from /sub/ but every other existing subfolder and its content. Anyone know of a better command to do this? And, why does this command not work? Just curious.

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    Possibly related from stackoverflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/273743/…
    – Terrance
    Jun 4, 2019 at 13:44
  • Related. The selected answer solved my problem. Thanks.
    – mikanim
    Jun 4, 2019 at 14:01
  • @mikanim cool but you should mark waltinator as answer because he's 100% right about why that was happening.
    – tatsu
    Jun 4, 2019 at 15:12
  • He's right about the typo --mirror but I tried --mirror after his correction and it doesn't solve the issue. It still downloads everything.
    – mikanim
    Jun 4, 2019 at 16:19
  • Probably what you need to use is wget --show-progress -r -np https://www.website.com/sub/folders/here/ See this answer for explanation.
    – Raffa
    Jan 24, 2020 at 21:21

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Did you read man wget? The option you want is --mirror, documented as

   -m
   --mirror
       Turn on options suitable for mirroring.  This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings.  It is currently equivalent
       to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.

By typing -mirror, you've specified -m, -i, -r (3 times), and -o. These single letter options have their own meanings, see man wget.

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