Re: [Bug-wget] Will "-O xxx" option ALWAYS create xxx file?

[Micah Cowan]

That should never be necessary, at least not on any Unix-like system.

Opening the -O file happens very early on; I can't really imagine what
could cause it not to be created, apart from file permission or
invocation errors on the command line. But hey, when you tell Wget not
to tell you why it can't write a file (what the -q does), then I suppose
you're left to guess.

Wget's -q is a bit overzealous, really: a good -q option ought still to
report important errors, but quiet the rest of the output; Wget doesn't
really have such a mode.

-mjc

(10/01/2010 01:07 PM), 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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> 
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