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Re: problem with wget -O

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: problem with wget -O
Date 2021-01-28 17:20 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:06:25AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> Perhaps file a bug against that page. It appears that they were using
> -O merely to avoid overwriting http://master.zip with the second instance of
> wget. The manpage expressly advises against doing that: "Use of -O is
> not intended to mean simply "use the name file instead of the one in
> the URL". They should just use mv after each wget to place the zip
> files where they want them.

If -O is bad, then what are you supposed to use instead?

If you need to "use mv after each wget", how do you know the name of the
file that wget used?  And why can't you simply tell wget to use the
filename you *want* it to be written to?  Why would you need to do this
weird two-step process?

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Re: problem with wget -O Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-01-25 19:50 +0100
  Re: problem with wget -O Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-25 20:00 +0100
    Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 21:20 +0100
      Re: problem with wget -O Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-25 21:40 +0100
        Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 21:50 +0100
          Re: problem with wget -O Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-25 22:00 +0100
            Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 22:10 +0100
              Re: problem with wget -O Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-01-25 22:50 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 23:40 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 23:40 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-26 00:00 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-26 00:10 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-26 10:50 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2021-01-26 13:40 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-26 14:50 +0100
              Re: problem with wget -O Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-25 23:10 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 23:50 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-26 10:50 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-26 12:30 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-26 13:40 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-26 15:00 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-26 15:10 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-26 14:50 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-28 17:10 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-28 17:20 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-28 21:10 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-28 22:00 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-29 18:30 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-01-29 18:40 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-29 18:00 +0100
                Re: problem with wget -O Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-26 10:50 +0100
    Re: problem with wget -O Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-01-26 12:40 +0100
      Re: problem with wget -O <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-26 13:20 +0100
  Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 21:10 +0100
    Re: problem with wget -O Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-01-25 21:20 +0100
      Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 21:40 +0100
    Re: problem with wget -O deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-25 21:20 +0100
      Re: problem with wget -O Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-01-25 21:30 +0100
        Re: problem with wget -O deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-26 00:20 +0100

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