Re: where does wget put its file

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On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:12, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:52, david wrote:
> 
> > thats the trouble i was at root when the download started and i cannt
> > find any files, by name, by size anywhere from root on down
> > got me
> > its downloading from ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/???????
> > so it should of created a folder called mirror.pacific.net.au
> > would this be correct?
> > but its still not there either.
> > it still downloading madly, i just hope its saving them somewhere
> > its actually all the files to make and iso from
> > havent found a repository for 64bit man 10.1
> > thanks
> 
> Not to sound like a smartass, but:
> 
> # pwd
> 
> should tell you what directory your files are in.  Unless you specifically 
> gave wget a destination folder to put files into, it should download them 
> into your current working directory.  It would not have created a folder 
> called mirror.pacific.net.au or whatever; it would have just put the files 
> into the directory you're currently in.  When I used wget earlier today to 
> get the gpg keys for the kde-redhat repository, the file was placed in my 
> current working directory, no subdirectories created or anything like that.
> 
> -- 
> Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com
> "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."
> -Mark Twain


yes well mmmm
pwd reveals /root
is there a way of accessing this folder from a user or do i have to go
into root login to get there and have a look
im still downloading and it seems to be happy
i gave the command: root]#wget -m URL????
so thats where they are
thanks
david


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