What Does this Phrase Mean

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I don't understand this phrase.

"recursively wget'ing the site "

Found it at http://packetstormsecurity.org/.

 

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>I don't understand this phrase.
>"recursively wget'ing the site "

If you use the "dir" function with the "/s" switch, you get a listing of all
files, subdirectories, and files in those subdirectories of the root. That's a
recursive directory listing. Wget does the same thing with the virtual
directories of a web site, listing the contents of the root and all
subdirectories, including the full path to each item.
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"------>That Way!" wrote:
>
> I don't understand this phrase.
>
> "recursively wget'ing the site "

From the wget man page:

"Wget is capable of descending recursively through the structure of HTML
documents and FTP directory trees, making a local copy of the directory
hierarchy similar to the one on the remote server. This feature can be used
to mirror archives and home pages, or traverse the web in search of data,
like a WWW robot. In that spirit, Wget understands the `norobots'
convention."

Thor

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