Re: Is it possible to get wget --content-disposition to overwrite an existing file.

Tim Rühsen <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Mar 2024 19:35:01 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.wget.general
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On 2/25/24 03:40, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the only way to get wget to overwrite an existing 
> file is with the `-O` option, but I want to use `--content-disposition` 
> to write the output to the filename in the Content-Disposition: header. 
> This works, but if the filename already exists it writes to filename.1 
> instead. Is there a way to get it to overwrite the existing file?
> 

Wget tries not to overwrite files.

But if you want to remove the old file, no matter what, why don't you 
remove (or rename) that file before calling wget?

Regards, Tim

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