[PLUG] Simple wget question
Russell Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Sat Mar 15 16:18:08 UTC 2008
kurt braget wrote:
> If I run wget on a file (or series of files), how do I specify what
> directory I want the loaded file to go to? The way I understand it is that
> wget loads the file into whatever dir it was run from. But I don't want that
> behavior, as I am giving somebody else the command to run as a cron job. I
> would like to be able to specify the dir from root, like
> /home/something/download. Since I know where the directory is on this
> persons server (and I won't be running the command), I feel if I specify the
> directory from root, it will eliminate confusion, as opposed to saying "cd
> into the downloads dir, then run the command". Thanks. Kurt
I see this in 'man wget':
-P prefix
--directory-prefix=prefix
Set directory prefix to prefix. The directory prefix is the
directory where
all other files and subdirectories will be saved to, i.e. the
top of the
retrieval tree. The default is . (the current directory).
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Russ Johnson
Stargate Online
http://www.dimstar.net
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