Re: wget: Download files after certain date

From: Menno Duursma (menno_at_desktop.lan)
Date: 01/30/04


Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:45:07 GMT

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:17:17 -0500, Fao, Sean wrote:

> I wasn't really sure where this would be topical so I cross-posted. If
> I'm off-topic in either, please let me know and I'll gladly move to
> another newsgroup.

Idunno, maybe set a follow-up though.

> I've read through the man pages on wget and searched Google, and I can't
> find a way to download files after a certain date.

This is not realy clear to me (damn that browsky :-)), but maybe: "man at"

> For example, I want to download all files after January 1, 2004 and
> ignore all others.

If you mean files which where created or (last) modified after a certain
date, try "man find"

> Is this possible?

Yup.

> I appreciate any advice and thank you in advance,

If you want something executed from a certain date on up though, fire off
a "cron" job from "batch" - or some such:

man crontab

-- 
-Menno.


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