wget: Turn Off Forced .html Retreival

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Published on 2010-04-20T17:13:26Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 17:24 UTC
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When performing a recursive download, I specify a pattern via the -R parameter for wget to reject, but if this file is a HTML file, wget downloads the file regardless of whether or not it matches the pattern.

e.g.

wget -r -R "*dynamicfile*" example.com

still retrieves files such as example.com/dynamicfile1.html

Is there a way to prevent this?

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