Re: RE: [Bug-wget] Will "-O xxx" option ALWAYS creat e xxx file?

[Toni Verdu Carbo]

Thanks for your answer.

Actually, I was using full path to name file xxx, so this was not the
problem. I wrote xxx here to simplify.

Toni

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, address@hidden wrote:

> Toni:
>
> Make sure that you are looking in right directory for the file.  I don't
> recall exactly, but wget may either leave the file in the directory that
> the command "wget" is run from, or it may leave it in the directory that
> the command file actually exists in.
>
> To make sure it winds up where you want, just use the exact location of
> the file, including all the directories all the way down to the root
> directory and not just the file name.  Use
> "/mydirectory/myotherdirectories/etc/xxx" and not just "xxx".
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Toni Verdu Carbo" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:44am
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Bug-wget] Will "-O xxx" option ALWAYS create xxx file?
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I'm using wget (v1.10.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server). Is it possible
> that using "-O xxx" option xxx file is NOT created??
>
>         I'm using wget in an cron script to periodically download some file
> with "wget -qO xxx url", and I was assuming that the file xxx would be
> ALWAYS created, regardless of the result of the download, and the code after
> wget was assuming that. So I was not doing any test to assure xxx did really
> exist. But from time to time it seems that wget fails to create the file and
> the following code reports "file xxx doesn't exist" type errors...
>
>         For instance:
>
>         wget -qO xxx "http://..."; # any URL
>         ls xxx
>
> most of times work, but sometimes it gives an error message "ls: cannot
> access xxx: No such file or directory". Does this make sense?
>
>         Of course I can add some test for the existence of the xxx file
> after wget use, but the question is: is there any situation where "wget -qO
> xxx ..." could NOT create file xxx, or the file should be created in ANY
> situation?
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>
>         Toni
>
>
>
>
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