Alexander Chernyavsky wrote: > Hello, > > I'm doing wget http://tex.imm.uran.ru/tex/beameruserguide.pdf -O > beameruserguide.pdf. Download completes and ls -l shows that file is > dated as 2005-10-23 20:48. Date command shows Mon Mar 21 20:37:56 MSK > 2011. > > I'm reading in manual: >> For this reason, -N (for timestamp-checking) is not supported in >> combination with -O: since file is always newly created, it will always >> have a very new timestamp. > But in my case file has an old timestamp. I'm using -O and timestamping > still works. Moreover, even without -N it continues to work. How can I > turn off timestamping? > > P.S. My config files(/etc/wgetrc, ~/.wgetrc) are clear. > P.P.S. Doing "-O- > beameruserguide.pdf" is a dirty way and is not a > solution of the problem.
wget http://tex.imm.uran.ru/tex/beameruserguide.pdf -O beameruserguide.pdf && touch beameruserguide.pdf ? Why is shell redirection not a solution?
