Does -O mean rename in wget?
Tapas Mishra
mightydreams at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 13:15:23 UTC 2012
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to do this :-
>
> wget -O http://www.ex.com/long_filename myfile.zip
>
> Is this the way it is used ?
>
> Many thanks,
> Ashim
>
> -O may not work as you expect: Wget
>
> won't just download the first file to file and then download the
>
> rest to their normal names: all downloaded content will be
>> placed
>
> in file. This was disabled in version 1.11, but has been
>> reinstated
>
> (with a warning) in 1.11.2, as there are some cases where this
>
> behavior can actually have some use. The documents will not be
>> written
>
> to the appropriate files, but all will be concatenated
together and
written to *file.*
>
>
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