How do I mirror a directory with wget without creating parent directories?

For a path like: ftp.site.com/a/b/c/d

-nH would download all files to the directory a/b/c/d in the current directory, and -nH --cut-dirs=3 would download all files to the directory d in the current directory.

-np (no parent) option will probably do what you want, tied in with -L 1 (I think, don't have a wget install before me), which limits the recursion to one level.

EDIT. ok. gah... maybe I should wait until I've had coffee.. There is a --cut or similar option, which allows you to "cut" a specified number of directories from the output path, so for /a/b/c/d, a cut of 2 would force wget to create c/d on your local machine

Instead of using:

-nH --cut-dirs=1

use:

-nH --cut-dirs=100

This will cut more directories and no folders will be created.

Note: 100 = the number of folders to skip creating. You can change 100 to any number.

I had a similar requirement and the following combination seems to be the perfect choice:

In the below example, all the files in http://url/dir1/dir2 (alone) are downloaded to local directory /dest/dir

wget  -nd -np -P /dest/dir --recursive http://url/dir1/dir2

Thanks @ffledgling for the hint on "-nd"

For the above example:

wget -nd -np --mirror --user=x --password=x ftp://ftp.site.com/folder/subfolder/evendeeper

Snippets from manual:

   -nd
   --no-directories
       Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively.  With this option turned on, all files will get saved to the current directory, without clobbering (if a name shows up more than once, the
       filenames will get extensions .n).


   -np
   --no-parent
       Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively.  This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded.