The current man page for wget seems to deprecate the use of -O for the output file name (especially in the case of multiple files).

There is no suggestion for what to do to specify the output file names. (--background implies that it can be done with -o but the --output-file=logfile later in man implies this is output for log file output, not the downloaded file.)


Elseweb, I saw a suggestion to use:

wget -qO- newname URL

Which at least handles the one case of downloading a single file name. This does NOT address the multiple file names case.

Surely someone is has this need and knows how to do it.

Best Wishes,
David Whitten
713-870-3834