-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dalglish, Tom wrote: > Hi Micah, > > I am a happy user of wget and use it on a daily basis. Is > there a user group???? I’d be happy to direct my questions there.
Hi Dalglish, There is in fact: [email protected]. I've Cc'd the list there. > > I use wget to mirror files from ftp sites. One of the > problems is that – as a file is downloading – it appears in the local > file directory as it is being written. As such, other applications can > “see” “in flight” files. In my use case, after a file is mirrored, I > need to load the file into a database. Since I do not know of a way to > add a callback to wget (wget –callback-script=~/etc/loadFile.sh) one > workaround would be to have a –tmpdir or –tmpfile option…… (or the > callback one J) > > Is there a way to tell wget to use a tmpfile name until it > is downloaded on disk and then do a “mv” command to the “real” filename? > That way, I can hide the in flight files from being visible until they > are fully downloaded. There's no mechanism to support that currently. I suppose one could rig a script to follow wget's log output, though, and detect when a file has finished downloading, so it can take appropriate action on it. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoMk9MACgkQ7M8hyUobTrE41ACfWcmacXE57q21x/syD5nZZbqO yJUAn279JQZnS115lm+9DtGt+hDMAxzj =UyAl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
