I want to download all files matching a certain pattern from https://download.osmand.net/list.php.
For example running
wget -nd -r -A 'list.php, *Sweden_*' https://download.osmand.net/list.php
downloads only list.php.
If I use
wget -nd -r -A 'list.php, *' https://download.osmand.net/list.php
instead all files are downloaded.
What is wrong with my acclist in the first example?
I didn't know myself, researching for this answer I learned something new.
wget docs says:
‘-A acclist --accept acclist’
‘-R rejlist --reject rejlist’
Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to accept or reject (see Types of Files). Note that if any of the wildcard characters, ‘’, ‘?’, ‘[’ or ‘]’, appear in an element of acclist or rejlist, it will be treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix. In this case, you have to enclose the pattern into quotes to prevent your shell from expanding it, like in ‘-A ".mp3"’ or ‘-A '*.mp3'’.‘--accept-regex urlregex’
‘--reject-regex urlregex’
Specify a regular expression to accept or reject the complete URL.
So it seems that -A can be used to check extensions, but not the full pattern of the link. To search the full pattern, you need the --accept-regex urlregex option.
The following command worked for me.
wget -nd -r --accept-regex 'Sweden_' https://download.osmand.net/list.php