On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:07:18PM -0500, Bob Hartung wrote: > Hi all, > I am having a devil of a time making curl work. It seems to be doing > everyghing fine until the download is "complete" then it gives the > following: > > curl: (3) <url> malformed > > No other information is forthcoming. I am using a little script > which is as follows (the same error occurs when entered from the command > line however). > > curl -q -u anonymous:rwhart@xxxxxxxxx -O > ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/5/i386/iso/FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso > /archive/downloads/FC5/dvd-iso/ > > > Any suggestions? Any help appreciated. > Wrong order and usage of parameters. The string after -O defines the local filename and the path is cut off. You're trying to specify a directory to store the downloaded file, which doesn't work (according to the manpage). Try ( cd /archive/downloads/FC5/dvd-iso/; curl -q -u anonymous:rwhart@xxxxxxxxx ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/5/i386/iso/FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso ) Karsten -- Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> GPG 1024D/70ABD02C Fingerprint D2D4 3B6B 2DE4 464C A432 210A DFF8 A140 70AB D02C Red Hat Deutschland, Hauptstaetter Str.58 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.+49-711-96437-0, Fax +49-711-96437-111
