Hi Micah, Thanks for the reply.
I just notice another strange problem which is slightly related to the previous mentioned bug. There are some websites which I try to download files and it gets copied to my home folder instead of the destination that I wanted it to go to (and those URLs does not contains special characters). You can try if possible. wget http://supersexe.net/10012/HotCelebrities.exe -P/home/test/1234/ (Please note that the downloaded file might be malware) The file doesn't get downloaded to /home/test/1234 Please help. Regards, Alan On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Micah Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > (09/27/2010 10:09 PM), Alan Lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure if this is a bug in wget or if there is any way of getting > > around this. > > > > I have this following code in my shell script. > > > > rand=$RANDOM > > `wget -t2 -T30 $url -P/tmp/$rand` > > > > This works fine with normal downloads. (e.g. http://website.com/file.exe > ) > > and the file gets downloaded to /tmp/<random number> > > > > However, if I use a URL like this (http://website.com/get.php?id=02908) > the > > file does not get downloaded to /tmp/<random number> instead it will be > > downloaded to the same directory where wget is called. > > > > I can't seem to find a way to fix this. > > Can anyone help please?? > > I believe this issue is currently tracked as > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?21531 > > Unfortunately, there's no real work-around (other than using -O, or not > using > --content-disposition (on the commandline or in the wgetrc)). > > -- > Micah J. Cowan > http://micah.cowan.name/ >
