Does -O mean rename in wget?

[Tapas Mishra]

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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