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 Directory Options
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 `-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').
 
 `-x'
 `--force-directories'
      The opposite of `-nd'--create a hierarchy of directories, even if
      one would not have been created otherwise.  E.g. `wget -x
      http://fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt' will save the downloaded file to
      `fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt'.
 
 `-nH'
 `--no-host-directories'
      Disable generation of host-prefixed directories.  By default,
      invoking Wget with `-r http://fly.srk.fer.hr/' will create a
      structure of directories beginning with `fly.srk.fer.hr/'.  This
      option disables such behavior.
 
 `--cut-dirs=NUMBER'
      Ignore NUMBER directory components.  This is useful for getting a
      fine-grained control over the directory where recursive retrieval
      will be saved.
 
      Take, for example, the directory at
      `ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/'.  If you retrieve it with `-r',
      it will be saved locally under `ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/'.
      While the `-nH' option can remove the `ftp.xemacs.org/' part, you
      are still stuck with `pub/xemacs'.  This is where `--cut-dirs'
      comes in handy; it makes Wget not "see" NUMBER remote directory
      components.  Here are several examples of how `--cut-dirs' option
      works.
 
           No options        -> ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
           -nH               -> pub/xemacs/
           -nH --cut-dirs=1  -> xemacs/
           -nH --cut-dirs=2  -> .
           
           --cut-dirs=1      -> ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/
           ...
 
      If you just want to get rid of the directory structure, this
      option is similar to a combination of `-nd' and `-P'.  However,
      unlike `-nd', `--cut-dirs' does not lose with subdirectories--for
      instance, with `-nH --cut-dirs=1', a `beta/' subdirectory will be
      placed to `xemacs/beta', as one would expect.
 
 `-P PREFIX'
 `--directory-prefix=PREFIX'
      Set directory prefix to PREFIX.  The "directory prefix" is the
      directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved
      to, i.e. the top of the retrieval tree.  The default is `.' (the
      current directory).
 

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