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Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] New option: --rename-output: modify output filena


From: Tim Rühsen
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] New option: --rename-output: modify output filename with perl
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:27:02 +0200
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Thank you for your work, Andrew !

In general, I like the idea of being able to read and/or modify the filenames.

Just for discussion: What about a more slightly extended option:

Call an external program after downloading and saving, not only with filename 
but also with additional information (e.g. HTTP header stuff like content-type 
etc.). This external program would be able to rename the file (and telling this 
Wget via pipe output as Andrew suggested), but also being able to analyze the 
file content, saving meta-infos into a database, extract and execute 
javascript, etc.

Two thoughts:
- the whole idea is not relevant for single downloads.
- the above things could be done by analysing Wgets debugging output. I have 
done this several times. But the debugging output is not documented, so these 
solutions are hacks and might break with the next version of Wget.

Regards, Tim

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