On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:07, John J. Foerch <jjfoe...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 05:53:39PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > > "John J. Foerch" <jjfoe...@earthlink.net> writes: > > >> > But when I do the same thing with a link to a html website and the > > >> > shellcommand wget, it seems that nothing happens - no error > > >> > message, but > > >> > no downloaded html file in ~/ either (wget works on the bash > prompt). > > > > > > I'm sorry, I misspoke. That command downloads the file to a temporary > > > directory, not your cwd, and deletes it when the command is finished. > > > > Hmm ... maybe a misunderstanding, but how do I use it if it is > > immediatley deleted? > > The temporary file is deleted after the program exits. This is designed > for viewers; it's the wrong tool for using an alternative downloader. > Just to clarify, this is the behavior of shell-command-on-file (bound to x). In particular note that this runs the specified command with the path to the temporary file as an argument, which would not be a correct invocation of, say, wget. shell-command-on-url (bound to X) will just run the command with a URL as an argument, which would potentially work for wget.
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