Jack Pavlovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's probably a bug: bug: when downloading wget -mirror > ftp://somehost.org/somepath/3acv14~anivcd.mpg, wget saves it as-is, > but when downloading wget ftp://somehost.org/somepath/3*, wget saves > the files as 3acv14%7Eanivcd.mpg
Thanks for the report. The problem here is that Wget tries to be "helpful" by encoding unsafe characters in file names to %XX, as is done in URLs. Your first example works because of an oversight (!) that actually made Wget behave as you expected. The good news is that the "helpfulness" has been rethought for the next release and is no longer there, at least not for ordinary characters like "~" and " ". Try getting the latest CVS sources, they should work better in this regard. (http://wget.sunsite.dk/ explains how to download the source from CVS.)
