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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: -nc and -O interoperability?
From:       Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic () srce ! hr>
Date:       1998-10-26 17:12:41
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"Ken Poore" <ken@sirsi.com> writes:

> If I execute this twice, in succession:
> 
> wget -nc -O b.pdf -nd
> http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1998_register\&doc
> id=98-17402-filed.pdf
> 
> It downloads the file twice, re-saving it as b.pdf.  Based on the
> documentation, I would expect the second time to 'see' the local
> existence of 'b.pdf' and not 'clobber' it.

`-O' circumvents -nc and many other options.  It could be argued to be
a bug.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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