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  using wget to download gz file cant get it to work. Gooderham <colinmarr0@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 10:40 -0700
    Re: using wget to download gz file cant get it to work. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-05-11 22:39 +0000
    Re: using wget to download gz file cant get it to work. Gerrit van den Hanenberg <gvdnh@xs4all.nl> - 2016-05-12 01:48 +0200
    Re: using wget to download gz file cant get it to work. Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2016-05-11 20:02 -0500
    Re: using wget to download gz file cant get it to work. Gooderham <colinmarr0@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 10:43 -0700

#3745 — using wget to download gz file cant get it to work.

I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to download a blacklist file.

When I go to 

http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=download

and then try to run

wget -qnv -O blacklists.tar.gz http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=smalltestlist

or 

wget -qnv -O blacklists.tar.gz http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=information&file=bigblacklist

it creates a file called blacklists.tar.gz but inside the file
Is simply the words "No filename or type of reqest."

Yet when I go to the site in a Windows computer and click on the link in the web page it downloads a nice file.

I must the command or the link wrong. I just cant figure out which.
Can anyone help me on this?

thanks

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#3746

Gooderham wrote:
> I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to download a blacklist file.
>
> [...]
> Yet when I go to the site in a Windows computer and click on the link in
> the web page it downloads a nice file.
>
> I must the command or the link wrong. I just cant figure out which.
> Can anyone help me on this?

Could be a robots.txt getting in the way of wget. 

-- 
Registered Linux user #585947
Github: https://github.com/dpurgert

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#3747

Gooderham wrote:

> I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to download a blacklist file.
> 
> When I go to
> 
> http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=download
> 
> and then try to run
> 
> wget -qnv -O blacklists.tar.gz
> http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=smalltestlist

put ' around the url 

example:
wget -O blacklists.tar.gz 
'http://urlblacklist.com/cgibin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=smalltestlist'

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#3748

On 05/11/2016 12:40 PM, Gooderham wrote:
> wget -qnv -O blacklists.tar.gz http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=smalltestlist
>
> or
>
> wget -qnv -O blacklists.tar.gz http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=information&file=bigblacklist
>
> it creates a file called blacklists.tar.gz but inside the file
> Is simply the words "No filename or type of reqest."

Your wget command ended with the "&" and ran in the background. Your
shell then tried to run a command named "file=smalltestlist" in the
foreground. You need to place command arguments in quotes when they
contain characters that are special to the shell.

-- 
Bob Nichols         AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"

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#3753

Thank you that seems to work.
A little embarrassing really. Quotes. I should have know. I was following some notes I had on this set up of Linux and I guess I didn't have quote in my document so I didn't think to add them.

thanks very much.

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