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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: wget does not overwrite
From:       Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2007-04-28 21:14:02
Message-ID: 200704282314.02409.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 15:21, Kim B. Heino wrote:
> On my normal Linux system:
> 
> "wget http://www.google.com/" writes "index.html". Doing it again writes 
> "index.html.1", and so on.
> 
> "wget -O index.html http://www.google.com/" writes to "index.html", always.
> 
> With BusyBox the result is different:
> 
> [root@ysi5 tmp]$ wget http://www.google.com/
> Connecting to www.google.com[209.85.129.99]:80
> index.html           100% |*****************************|  3244 
> --:--:-- ETA
> [root@ysi5 tmp]$ wget http://www.google.com/
> Connecting to www.google.com[209.85.129.99]:80
> wget: index.html: File exists
> [root@ysi5 tmp]$ wget -O index.html http://www.google.com/
> Connecting to www.google.com[209.85.129.104]:80
> wget: index.html: File exists
> [root@ysi5 tmp]$
> 
> Is this intended behaviour? I'm running (very old) BusyBox 1.3.1, but by 
> quickly looking at the latest source, this has not changed. If nobody 
> objects changing this, I can write a patch for "-O" to overwrite.

Absolutely, I'd love to see it.
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