Wget command still downloads folder after exclusion

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I am trying to learn wget better. However when I run my code it still downloads the forum section. Where am I going wrong?

    wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --limit-rate=50k --random-wait --exclude-domains http://domain.com/forums/ --no-parent http://domain.com/

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http://domain.com/forums/ isn't a domain, it's a URL. --exclude-domains won't work with it.

Try --exclude-directories=/forums/.

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I think these switches will do what you want with wget:

   -A acclist --accept acclist
   -R rejlist --reject rejlist
       Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to 
       accept or reject. Note that if any of the wildcard characters, *, ?,
       [ or ], appear in an element of acclist or rejlist, it will be 
       treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix.

   --accept-regex urlregex
   --reject-regex urlregex
       Specify a regular expression to accept or reject the complete URL.

Example

$ wget -r --no-parent -A 'bar.*.tar.gz' http://url/dir/

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