Precision on wget -r

Question

This command worked as expected (see top folder in the image):

 wget -P ~/Downloads -r -A pdf http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/antoine-compagnon/

except it started retrieving other folders not specified in the url (the other folders, such as ressources-humaines).

How to prevent this?

Answer 1

You will probably want to add the --no-parent (-np for short) option. This ensures that it'll only descend into directories, never go somewhere else.