On 28 Sep 2001 at 9:48, Hubert Ming wrote: > dear wget gurus > i'm a little new in this business so excuse my beginner question > on my suse-linux (wget 1.5.x) I download every night > virus-signature-files. these files always have the same file-names even > if they are updated by the software-manufacturer. now wget realizes that > these files already exists on my destination download directory and adds > an increment (.1, .2, .3) to the file name. how can i avoid this and > overwrite the (old) files.
Either of the -x and/or -N options will stop that happening, at least with wget 1.7 (not sure about 1.5.x). They may have other effects you don't want (see man page).
