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Re: Wget difference



Forgot to mention, once wc -l wget-log or wc -l wget-log.x is issued, 
hitting up arrow followed by enter gets you further line counts of 
wget-log for monitoring progress of file download.

On Thu, 2 May 2013, francis picabia wrote:

> I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direct Link"
> feature on the sourceforge projects.
> 
> For example, today, I downloaded scamp:
> 
> $ wget
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scamp/scamp/scamp-5.6/scamp-5.6.tar.gz?r=&ts=1367500908&use_mirror=superb-dca3
> 
> On Redhat, this produces a file called scamp-5.6.tar.gz
> 
> On Debian, this produces a file called scamp-5.6.tar.gz?r=
> Sometimes the resulting filename on Debian is much longer.
> 
> It can be easily fixed with the mv command, but it has me wondering,
> why does the Debian version have this issue?
> 

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