Re: problems copying remote dir to my tree

Michael Dolan <mdolan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> How does one copy a remote subdir to a local subdir without getting the
> entire path?
>
> For example:
>
> local dir - /home/user/database
>
> remote dir - /pub/this/database
>
> I want the remote /database to to be copying (update) my local
> /home/usr/database
>
> Currently, it will add:
>
> /home/user/database/this/database

Specifying `--cut-dirs=2' will tell Wget to elide two directory
components, "pub" and "this", which is what you want.