Re: how lynx processes downloads?

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2025 21:02:06 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<20250514020206.m2l4xsdblrdbavls@illithid>

At 2025-05-13T21:48:50-0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> The reason is, as I just discovered, wget does not allow you to create
> a filename  like a browser might.  Instead wget downloads the url and
> with dropbox that is a long series of characters that is quite a mess
> in the end.

wget doesn't interactively prompt for a file name, but does support an
option to designate the output file name.

wget(1):
     -O file
     --output-document=file
         The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but
         all will be concatenated together and written to file.  If - is
         used as file, documents will be printed to standard output,
         disabling link conversion.  (Use ./- to print to a file
         literally named -.)

         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.
[further caveats snipped]

Regards,
Branden

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