On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:50:32AM +0000, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:51:09 +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>
>> I think you misunderstood the curl documentation,
>> in this way it works as you expect
>>
>> curl -L
>> http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe -o
>> ./miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe --create-dirs
>
>Thanks for your hints. But you can see the following explanations in the
>curl documentation:
>
>-O/--remote-name Write output to a file named as the remote file
Right. You still seem to be misinterpreting. -O just creates a file
name in the current directory based on the name of the file on the
remote end.
The man page makes it clearer:
-O, --remote-name
Write output to a local file named like the remote file we get.
(Only the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut
off.)
The remote file name to use for saving is extracted from the
given URL, nothing else.
Consequentially, the file will be saved in the current working
directory. If you want the file saved in a different directory,
make sure you change current working directory before you invoke
curl with the --O, ---remote-name flag!
You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you
have.
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