no i didn't specify any output dir - so it by default created the files in c:\windows\system32
i figured out that there is a flag that --delete-after that can get the WGET to deletes the file after downloading it. which fix the problem. Thanks, anyway. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]>wrote: > are you executing wget from the c:\Windows\system32 directory? > > To prevent the file to be being written to the disk, you can specify > "-O NUL" on the command line, never tried by myself but I remember it > works under Windows. > > Giuseppe > > > > "Itay Levin" <[email protected]> writes: > > > I'm using it with the following notation: > > > > WGET http://www.mysite.com/a.aspx > > > > > > > > And I noticed that it downloads this page to c:\Windows\system32 folder > > that is being filling up with a.aspx, a.aspx.1 a.aspx.2 and so on... > > > > Are there any command line flags that I can use to prevent this files to > > being written to disk? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Itay Levin > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > OnPage Priority Messaging > > > > Rise above the clutter(tm)! > > > > Get your FREE OnPage at: www.OnPage.com <http://www.onpage.com/> > > > > Follow OnPage on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/OnPage> & Twitter > > <http://www.twitter.com/On_Page> ! > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- ** *Thanks,* *Itay Levin* * -------------------------------------------------------------------- OnPage Priority Messaging Rise above the clutter™! Get your FREE OnPage at: www.OnPage.com <http://www.onpage.com/> Follow OnPage on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/OnPage> & Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/On_Page> ! *
