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NedStarkOfWinterfell
NedStarkOfWinterfell

Reputation: 5203

File downloaded successfully through WGET can't be located

I am trying to download a zipped file through WGET, the url is http://dl.opensubtitles.org/en/download/sub/3584243. When you try to load it into browser, a pop-up wndow appears asking you where to download it into. When I am trying to download it through WGET, the status says download complete, it eve shows the correct file size in diagnostics, but I can't find the file in the folder. What can possibly be wrong?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 7068

Answers (1)

speakr
speakr

Reputation: 4209

You are using wget in a wrong way. Use the -P switch to specify a directory to save the download to.

Wrong: wget http://your.url your_directory

Correct: wget -P your_directory http://your.url

Also, try adding --content-disposition to get the correct file name from urls where the file name itself is not part of the url (like in your example):

wget --content-disposition -P your_directory http://your.url

Upvotes: 3

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