[Linux-disciples] wget no-parent argument

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm downloading a site for work using wget, and it doesn't seem
to be listening to the no-parent argument. Thinking that maybe
this was a problem with long options (i.e., '--optionName')
coming over to DOS improperly, I tried also the short form of
'no-parent' ('-np') and the .wgetrc form. Neither seems to work.
Wget is still downloading directories above
'foo.com/whatsnew/press/2000', when my wgetrc contains
'no_parent = on'.

Any idea why this would happen?

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