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ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:05:49 -0700
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On 07/28/2014 02:22 AM, Elias Persson wrote:
> On 2014-07-28 08:08, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The nice folks at OverLookSoft set this file up so that
>> it will download automatically with
>>
>> wget http://www.overlooksoft.com/packages/download?plat=lx64&ext=rpm
>>
>> It get a file called: download?plat=lx64&ext=rpm
>>
>> Firefox does resolve this.  What am I doing wrong with
>> wget?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>
> I'm not all that familiar with wget, but judging from the man page
> at die.net you'll want the `--content-disposition` option. However,
> that's supposedly "experimental (not fully-functional)", and I'm
> not sure what version that applies to, nor what version you have.
>
> I'd go with curl, as usual.
>
>     curl --remote-name --remote-header-name "$url"
>
> Requires a version of curl newer than what's available for EL6
> though (`-J` was introduced in curl 7.20.0).
>

Hi Elias,

     Thank you!

-T

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