Re: Mention multiple -O OK

[Tim Rühsen]

On 19.02.23 02:23, Darshit Shah wrote:

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, at 18:03, Tim Rühsen wrote:

It is not possible to control the stored file names with multiple -O
options (missing feature)

Sorry, but no. This is not a missing feature. Its a long standing annoyance of 
mine but the manual describes -O as being equivalent to shell redirection. See 
the below selected quotes from the man page:

```
Use of -O is not intended to mean simply "use the name file instead of the one in the 
URL;" rather, it is analogous to shell redirection: wget -O file http://foo is intended 
to work like wget -O - http://foo > file; file will be truncated immediately, and all 
downloaded content will be written there.
```

And

```
Similarly, using -r or -p with -O may not work as you expect: Wget won't just 
download the first file to file and then download the rest to their normal 
names: all downloaded content will be placed in file.
```

Since this is a long standing documented "feature" I am not keen on modifying 
the default behavior as automated scripts that rely on it my break.

This was the reason that the first thing I did with Wget2 was to remove that 
sentence and implication from its manual allowing for a more intuitive 
implementation of the -O option there. However, unfortunately, this 
non-intuitive behavuour of -O shall stay in Wget for the time being.

Thanks for the clarification :)
I think we are on the same page here.



Regards, Tim

The "missing feature" was not meant to change the -O behavior, but more about having a feature that allows specifying names for multiple downloads. There are different ways to achieve that. E.g. one possible option could be to specify a well-formed CSV file with URL and file name as two columns. But it is easy to write such a tool either as a shell script or with the help of libwget (for the random reader: libwget is part of wget2).

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