Re: [Bug-wget] wget file name too long error

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Yiwei,

Thanks for reporting the issue.

The said problem has been fixed in the current alpha build of Wget. It will
be available when the next version of Wget is released.


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Yiwei Yang <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I want to save everything I downloaded from wget. However, When I use
> wget -p -H <url> where <url> can be some extremely long link like
>
>
> http://www.baidu.com/baidu.php?url=060000jseau7X1x3eY6DC9bMYbAZCSUYxKoGEAnm9bNQ-3C74TFYrjjVVWsntVGEBBWZvekliovDdNxOis9AkTcakEduxtazv2paoo2eTfutzgOK0-y3T8FCc4Oo9m76K7snYbn.7Y_igLRPg-ktXKhFDDT7TAHxYsUJS1_4qtAFB81IvU2S2-muCyr1xbvIB6.U1Yk0ZDqdXUcOUMl1VeQJsKY5Ighz5v4S_eXzl_0pyYqnW0k0ATqmhNsT100Iybqmh7GuZR0TA-b5HnL0APGujYs0AdY5H00pvbqn0KzIjYYP6K-pyfqnHfvPNtkrHfdg1cznjFxnHT3r7tznWRsg1czPW00mhbqrj6Yr0KVm1Ys0Z7spyfqn0Kkmv-b5H00ThIYmyTqn0KEIhsqnHcsQHNxnHczQHb4rHb4g1cvradbX-tzP1bVuZC0mycqn7ts0ANzu1Ys0ZKs5H00mh
>
> Since the URL is too long I get file name too long error when I save it. If
> I use -O ?? to specify the file name it still won't work since -p will
> fetch everything(several objects) that support the website so the first
> object fetched is saved as this   ?? but then the second fetched object
> will also be saved as ??  and now since " aa already exists" then it won't
> store this second object.
>
> So the problem is I can't use differnt file name for them to store, since
> they are all fetched from one single wget -p URL execution.
>
>    How can I solve all the objects even if the URL is very long and I don't
> want to change the URL itself? Thank you!
>
>
One workaround you can use till then is to use a URL shortener like bit.lyor
goo.gl.
Pass the shortened URL to wget. This works since wget will write to a file
whose name is defined by the url you pass to it on invokation.



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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah