On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, at 18:03, Tim Rühsen wrote:
>
> It is not possible to control the stored file names with multiple -O
> options (missing feature)
Sorry, but no. This is not a missing feature. Its a long standing annoyance of
mine but the manual describes -O as being equivalent to shell redirection. See
the below selected quotes from the man page:
```
Use of -O is not intended to mean simply "use the name file instead of the one
in the URL;" rather, it is analogous to shell redirection: wget -O file
http://foo is intended to work like wget -O - http://foo > file; file will be
truncated immediately, and all downloaded content will be written there.
```
And
```
Similarly, using -r or -p with -O may not work as you expect: Wget won't just
download the first file to file and then download the rest to their normal
names: all downloaded content will be placed in file.
```
Since this is a long standing documented "feature" I am not keen on modifying
the default behavior as automated scripts that rely on it my break.
This was the reason that the first thing I did with Wget2 was to remove that
sentence and implication from its manual allowing for a more intuitive
implementation of the -O option there. However, unfortunately, this
non-intuitive behavuour of -O shall stay in Wget for the time being.
