On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:16, david wrote: > hi all > where does wget put the files it downloads by default > finally found a program to download 64bit man10.0 and i cant find the > files its downloading, i hope > i see the activity on the router but cant find anything on the drive > thanks for the help > as always > david usually into a subdirectory of your current dir. if you download using wget http://foobar.com/software/rpm/foobar-3.1.2-4.i386.rpm it will create foobar.com/software/rpm/foobar-3.1.2-4.i386.rpm if you don't want it to do this, but to put the file in you local directory directly, try wget -nH -nd http://foobar.com/software/rpm/foobar-3.1.2-4.i386.rpm this is not a good idea for recursive (ie multi-file/directory) downloads. for those read man wget and check out the --cut-dirs option Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX Paranoia is heightened awareness.