Re: [Bug-wget] assigning a new output file name for each member of a download list

[Ángel González]

On 22/05/12 13:37, 2AS1 wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I want to use WGET in an application that will download files for users and
> the last download for each user should be stored in a permanent file name
> to be used for each download per user.
>
> Rather than instantiating wget for each download, using a command line that
> includes -O -output-filename=file url .  It would be ideal if I could use a
> list with each file in the list followed by an -O output file name
> directive.
>
> In my case I think it would be more efficient since I am going to be
> downloading maybe 100 files at one time, many times a day ..
>
> Perhaps instantiating  each time is not a performance hit .. but anyway ..
> Before I do that .. is their anyway to use the -I list feature and include
> a new file output name for each file in the list ?
>
> Thank you ..
>
> Jack
It would be a nice feature, but no, there's no option for that.
(the default ones may serve you if you're happy with the server filenames)