How do I mirror a directory with wget without creating parent directories?

Question

I want to mirror a folder via FTP, like this:

wget --mirror --user=x --password=x ftp://ftp.site.com/folder/subfolder/evendeeper 

But I do not want to create a directory structure like this:

ftp.site.com -> folder -> subfolder -> evendeeper

I just want:

evendeeper

And anything below it to be the resulting structure. It would also be acceptable for the contents of evendeeper to wind up in the current directory as long as subdirectories are created for subdirectories of evendeeper on the server.

I am aware of the -np option, according to the documentation that just keeps it from following links to parent pages (a non-issue for the binary files I'm mirroring via FTP). I am also aware of the -nd option, but this prevents creating any directory structure at all, even for subdirectories of evendeeper.

I would consider alternatives as long as they are command-line-based, readily available as Ubuntu packages and easily automated like wget.

Answer 1

For a path like: ftp.site.com/a/b/c/d

-nH would download all files to the directory a/b/c/d in the current directory, and -nH --cut-dirs=3 would download all files to the directory d in the current directory.

Answer 2

-np (no parent) option will probably do what you want, tied in with -L 1 (I think, don't have a wget install before me), which limits the recursion to one level.

EDIT. ok. gah... maybe I should wait until I've had coffee.. There is a --cut or similar option, which allows you to "cut" a specified number of directories from the output path, so for /a/b/c/d, a cut of 2 would force wget to create c/d on your local machine