wget - download all files but not preceding folders

I'm using wget to download all files from within a folder using the -r and -np options. However this also downloads the preceding folders, which I don't want.

For example:

wget -r -np ftp://user:[email protected]/articles/artist/images/

this downloads all files from within "images" (which is good) but then also downloads the folders articles, artist and images (which is bad). What option fixes this?

I think what you are looking for is the --cut-dirs option. Used in conjunction with the -nH (no hostname) option, you can specify exactly which level of directory you want to appear in your local output. As an example, I have a .pkg download that I want to write to my local directory, and I don't want all of the parent tree to be included, just the subdirectories. In this case, my starting point to just get the .pkg name as the parent directory is 5 levels down:

wget -np -nH --cut-dirs 5 -r http://www.myhost.org/pub/downloads/My_Drivers/OS_10_5_x/Letter_Format/driver_C123_105.pkg

What you will see, then, is the name driver_C123_105.pkg in your current directory.

% ls -lt | head
drwxr-xr-x   12 rob  rob        408 Feb 22 12:54 driver_C123_105.pkg
-rw-------@   1 rob  rob          0 Feb 16 15:59 1kPSXcUj.pdf.part
-rw-------@   1 rob  rob        842 Feb  3 14:47 WcUuL69s.jnlp.part

[...etc...]

% find driver_C123_105.pkg
driver_C123_105.pkg
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=D;O=A
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=D;O=D
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=M;O=A
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=M;O=D
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=N;O=A
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=N;O=D
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=S;O=A
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/index.html?C=S;O=D
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/Info.plist
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/PkgInfo
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/Resources
driver_C123_105.pkg/Contents/Resources/background.jpg

[.....etc....]

You can direct this output to go elsewhere with the -P option.

The --no-parent-Option is what you are looking for.

wget - download all files but not preceding folders

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