Mingfeng Lin wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm new to -wget- and haven't found the answer in the help file. I want > to download a file from an URL, and this file is updated every 24 hours > on the server. What I would like to do is to add a -wget- bat file in > the startup menu of windows, and then, every time I start the computer > the -wget- should (1) check with the file on the server and see if a > copy has been downloaded; if not, download the file and keep it. > > The problem I have is that if I use a -timestamping- option, the file > will be always replaced/updated with the most recent one. If I do not > use this option, then all versions will be saved - however if I startup > my computer more than once a day, there will be multiple copies of the > same file. So I was curious if I missed any options in -wget- that can > help me with this?
I don't think you missed anything; wget doesn't currently offer a way to both download the latest file _only_ if it has changed, _and_ write to a new, unique name, rather than overwrite. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/
