WGET help?

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  1. Posts : 103
    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
       #1

    WGET help?


    I couldn't find a suitable forum so I thought I would ask you guys.

    I downloaded GNU WGET to have a mess about with and I ran a sample script and it downloaded example.com but I can't find where it downloaded to. Anything I have found says it goes to the directory you ran it from but nothing shows up.

    Any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #2

    Can you post the sample script?
    How are you running it?
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  3. Posts : 103
    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I went into the install directory

    and just ran

    # Download the entire contents of example.com
    wget -r -l 0 Example Web Page

    i found it on wikipedia. i tried running from desktop and it worked so now im thinking i just didnt have the right permissions to write to the program files folders? there were no errors when it ran it just didn't seem to save
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  4. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #4

    I just ran a simple command line wget to my own http server and index.html was download to the current directory so that is indeed how it works. Need to see the script you are using, how you are running it to help.
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  5. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #5

    Ah, no, you can't write to the Program Files or Program Files (x86) folders. Really shouldn't be anyway.
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  6. Posts : 103
    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    That'll be why then

    I was thrown off because it didn't tell me there was a problem

    Cheers
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  7. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #7

    That is strange. I would have thought you'd get some kind of error message.
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  8. Posts : 1
    win 7 x64
       #8

    Look in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin
    that's where mine was.
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  9. Posts : 318
    Windows 10 x64
       #9

    You can specify the file location.

    Here's how I run wget:

    Code:
    wget --quiet -nv --output-document="FILE-NAME-GOES-HERE" --no-cache --no-directories --no-host-directories "URL-GOES-HERE"
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  10. Posts : 708
    Windows 7 x64
       #10

    What is wget used for?
    GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP


    Link:

    Index of /gnu/wget

    Google it.
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