wget commands to github fail - Chapter 5, listings 5.18

[tomperrine]

When using wget as shown in figure 5.18 and similar, the bottom dirs (bin and lib) are downloaded as single files instead of being recursed into.

Script started on 2020-07-12 19:08:37+00:00
tom@docker-herder:~/git-work/docker-book/sinatra$ pwd
/home/tom/git-work/docker-book/sinatra
tom@docker-herder: ~/git-work/docker-book/sinatra$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 294 Jul 12 14:55 Dockerfile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 0 Jul 12 19:08 typescript
tom@docker-herder: ~/git-work/docker-book/sinatra$ wget --cut-dirs=7 -nH -r -e robots=off --reject="index.html","Dockerfile" --no-parent https://github.com/turnbullpress/dockerbook-code/tree/master/code/5/sinatra/webapp
--2020-07-12 19:08:50-- https://github.com/turnbullpress/dockerbook-code/tree/master/code/5/sinatra/webapp
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.114.3
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.114.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘webapp’
webapp
2020-07-12 19:08:50 (448 KB/s) - ‘webapp’ saved [75941]

--2020-07-12 19:08:50-- https://github.com/turnbullpress/dockerbook-code/tree/master/code/5/sinatra/webapp/bin
Reusing existing connection to github.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘webapp/bin’
webapp/bin
2020-07-12 19:08:51 (881 KB/s) - ‘webapp/bin’ saved [73756]

--2020-07-12 19:08:51-- https://github.com/turnbullpress/dockerbook-code/tree/master/code/5/sinatra/webapp/lib
Reusing existing connection to github.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘webapp/lib’
webapp/lib
2020-07-12 19:08:51 (5.71 MB/s) - ‘webapp/lib’ saved [73888]

FINISHED --2020-07-12 19:08:51--
Total wall clock time: 1.5s
Downloaded: 3 files, 218K in 0.3s (841 KB/s)
tom@docker-herder: ~/git-work/docker-book/sinatra$ ls -lR
.:
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 294 Jul 12 14:55 Dockerfile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 0 Jul 12 19:08 typescript
drwxrwxr-x 2 tom tom 4096 Jul 12 19:08 webapp

./webapp:
total 152
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 73756 Jul 12 19:08 bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tom tom 73888 Jul 12 19:08 lib
tom@docker-herder: ~/git-work/docker-book/sinatra$ file webapp
webapp/: directory
tom@docker-herder: ~/git-work/docker-book/sinatra$ file webapp/lib
webapp/lib: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines

Script done on 2020-07-12 19:09:18+00:00

[tomperrine]

Apologies - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[doojin]

same problem, any update on this?

[dheveng]

did anyone get this work? im having the same issues

/dheven

[csmall]

Not the most ideal way but a work-around is to clone the repository and copy the files.
e.g. if you were trying to get the webapp_redis to do section 5.2.3

git clone https://github.com/turnbullpress/dockerbook-code.git
[... lots of download messages ...]

cd sinatra
cp -r ../dockerbook-code/code/5/sinatra/webapp_redis .