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Moak
Asked: 2011-11-15 18:11:29 +0800 CST

How to download files that are dynamically served

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I've run into this a few times when a site serves a variable file i try to download

wget http://trac-hacks.org/changeset/latest/tracajaxcommentsplugin?old_path=/&filename=tracajaxcommentsplugin&format=zip

Expected file

tracajaxcommentsplugin-r10913.zip instead I get a file tracajaxcommentsplugin\?old_path\=%2F with content

<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" ...

This problem is not specific to trac or this pecific file.

linux wget

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Wrap it with a single quote:

    $ wget 'http://trac-hacks.org/changeset/latest/tracajaxcommentsplugin?old_path=/&filename=tracajaxcommentsplugin&format=zip' -O tracajaxcommentsplugin-r10913.zip

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