how to download rpms from website using shell script ?

[Lakshmipathi]

I'm trying this out with a shell script - to download rpms from below link,i used this,

wget http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedo...s/Fedora/*.rpm

it says "wildcards are not allowed"

any thoughts about how to download rpms using shell scripts?

[meton_magis]

for this one instance, I believe everything in that directory is an RPM, so just

wget -r http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora

[imranka]

From wget manual 1.11.3:

`accept = acclist'
The argument to `--accept' option is a list of file suffixes or patterns that Wget
will download during recursive retrieval. A suffix is the ending part of a file, and
consists of \normal" letters, e.g. `gif' or `.jpg'. A matching pattern contains
shell-like wildcards, e.g. `books*' or `zelazny*196[0-9]*'.

So, specifying `wget -A gif,jpg' will make Wget download only the les end-
ing with `gif' or `jpg', i.e. gifs and jpegs. On the other hand, `wget -A
"zelazny*196[0-9]*"' will download only files beginning with `zelazny' and con-
taining numbers from 1960 to 1969 anywhere within. Look up the manual of your
shell for a description of how pattern matching works.

Of course, any number of suffixes and patterns can be combined into a comma-
separated list, and given as an argument to `-A'.

So, you can do

wget -r -A.rpm -N http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora

[Lakshmipathi]

thanks guyz .... here is another question, I need to download few packages (just download them -- don't want to install )

i need to download specific package along with it's dependency.(for example download zsh and zlib-devel along with their dependencies)

I have a file with required rpms :

$cat listofrpms.txt
zsh-4.2.6-6.fc7.i386.rpm
zlib-devel-1.2.3-10.fc7.i386.rpm

Shell script to download the required files:

URLS="http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/zlib-devel-1.2.3-10.fc7.i386.rpm
http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/zsh-4.2.6-6.fc7.i386.rpm"
for pkg in $URLS;
do
echo "downloading...$pkg"
wget $pkg;
done

Shell script-2 to display the dependencies of a package:

while read line
do
echo -e "RPM:::: $line \n"
rpm -pqR $line
sleep 1;
done <listofrpms.txt

Now how to integrate these pieces to make the final shell script that downloads required rpms (as specified in
listofrpms.txt file) along with its dependencies?

I came across "yum with downloadonly" plugin does that download dependencies too?

I'm trying it out -- if you know any solution for this new requirement, please let me know.