Does -O mean rename in wget?

[Christopher Sacchi]

Maybe try: wget --help.

Good Luck,
Chris

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On Feb 22, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would -O work as rename in case of a single file ? That is my question I guess. If it does not , how do we rename ? Please explain.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ashim
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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