On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:24, Stuart Sears wrote: > 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. 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 david
