How to specify the download location with wget

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I need files to be downloaded to  tmp cron test   My wget code is  wget --random-wait -r -p -nd -e robots off -A  pdf  -U mozilla http   math stanford edu undergrad    So is there some parameter to specify the directory

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From the manual page   -P prefix --directory-prefix prefix            Set directory prefix to prefix   The directory prefix is the            directory where all other files and sub-directories will be            saved to  i e  the top of the retrieval tree   The default            is    the current directory     So you need to add -P  tmp cron test   short form  or --directory-prefix  tmp cron test   long form  to your command  Also note that if the directory does not exist it will get created

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-O is the option to specify the path of the file you want to download to  wget  lt uri gt  -O  path to file ext  -P is prefix where it will download the file in the directory  wget  lt uri gt  -P  path to folder

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Make sure you have the URL correct for whatever you are downloading  First of all  URLs with characters like   and such cannot be parsed and resolved  This will confuse the cmd line and accept any characters that aren t resolved into the source URL name as the file name you are downloading into   For example   wget  sourceforge net projects ebosse files latest download source typ redirect    will download into a file named   source typ redirect   As you can see  knowing a thing or two about URLs helps to understand wget   I am booting from a hirens disk and only had Linux 2 6 1 as a resource  import os is unavailable   The correct syntax that solved my problem downloading an ISO onto the physical hard drive was    wget   source url   -O  directory where HD was mounted  isofile iso     One could figure the correct URL by finding at what point wget downloads into a file named index html  the default file   and has the correct size other attributes of the file you need shown by the following command   wget   source url     Once that URL and source file is correct and it is downloading into index html  you can stop the download  ctrl   z  and change the output file by using   -O   lt specified download directory gt  filename extension    after the source url   In my case this results in downloading an ISO and storing it as a binary file under isofile iso  which hopefully mounts

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man wget    -O file        --output-document file  wget  url  -O  tmp cron test  lt file gt

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-P  is the right option  please read on for more related information   wget  -nd -np -P  dest dir --recursive http   url dir1 dir2  Relevant snippets from man pages for convenience      -P prefix    --directory-prefix prefix        Set directory prefix to prefix   The directory prefix is the directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved to  i e  the top of the retrieval tree   The default is    the current directory       -nd    --no-directories        Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively   With this option turned on  all files will get saved to the current directory  without clobbering  if a name shows up more than once  the        filenames will get extensions  n        -np    --no-parent        Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively   This is a useful option  since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded

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