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Linux wget Single File and Change Filename

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I normally don't post much about Linux because I only use it on a few EC2 servers, but this is worth posting because I couldn't find anything online about it. I was trying to download a single file using wget and save it to a new filename. Well, I incorrectly assumed that wget could do that, but it doesn't seem that it can. Instead, you have to download the file and then issue a move (mv) command on it. Here's an example:


wget -P /mnt/filestore/unprocessed/ http://www.example.com/uglyfilename.mov
mv /mnt/filestore/unprocessed/uglyfilename.mov /mnt/filestore/unprocessed/PrettyName.mov

Obviously, use your own urls and filenames.


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Paul Kukiel's Gravatar Actually wget can do this with the -O flag

Example:
wget -O myFileName.zip http://download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip

This often comes in handing ie I used this just yesterday to get the 1.6.13 JDK from sun and if you use just wget the file name is way to long
# Posted By Paul Kukiel | 5/20/09 12:51 PM
James Brown's Gravatar See, I thought I tried that but it didn't seem to work. Since I was using a bash script for what I was doing, my way worked too.

Thanks for the heads up!
# Posted By James Brown | 5/20/09 1:04 PM
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