Wget delete file after download

Also beginning with Wget , if you use -c on a file which is of equal size as the one on the server, Wget will refuse to download the file and print an explanatory message. The same happens when the file is smaller on the server than locally (presumably because it was changed on the server since your last download attempt)because.  · If the passwords are important, do not leave them lying in those files either; edit the files and delete them after wget has started the downloadno-cache: Disable server-side cache. In this case, wget sends the remote server an appropriate directive (Pragma: no-cache) to get the file from the remote service, rather than returning the cached.  · this link will only work for a certain time and than GitHub will delete your zip file from their servers.. So what you get with wget is just the html page which would forward you .

however? happens to be a wget wildcard, thus to match a literal? you need to escape it as \? don't interrupt wget. Because it seems the way wget works with browse-able web pages is to actually download first, delete later, as if it needs to check in case those pages have further links to crawl. I'm assuming you downloaded with your browser so Chrome and Firefox are set to download to Downloads/ by default f.e. /home/Downloads If you downloaded with wget than either you specified location or downloaded to your current location (which you can check with pwd) You can always use. locate to find it's location, for example. I am already using wget to download files. that is why I would like to use wget to delete the remote files when downloading is complete. Save Share. Reply. W.

I'm assuming you downloaded with your browser so Chrome and Firefox are set to download to Downloads/ by default f.e. /home/Downloads If you downloaded with wget than either you specified location or downloaded to your current location (which you can check with pwd) You can always use. locate to find it's location, for example. wget -r -nd --delete-after bltadwin.ru~popular/page/ The `-r' option is to retrieve recursively, and `-nd' not to create directories. `--dot-style=style' Set the retrieval style to style. Wget traces the retrieval of each document by printing dots on the screen, each dot representing a fixed amount of retrieved data. The timestamp is the LAST thing that wget sets, after the file is fully downloaded, which means that any partially downloaded file is almost guaranteed to have a different timestamp. The problem is, wget -N will NOT redownload the file, because it will almost assuredly see an earlier timestamp on the server, and conclude that the local file is.