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bug #62964: --on-clobber does not respect sym-linked files

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 27 Aug 2022 02:07:23 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Paul Wratt Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  1.20
Operating System:  None Reproducibility:  Every Time
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
Regression:  None Work Required:  None
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Sat 22 Oct 2022 07:25:53 PM UTC, comment #1: 

From the manual:


           When running Wget with -N, with or without -r or -p, the decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy of a file depends on the local and remote timestamp
           and size of the file.  -nc may not be specified at the same time as -N.


Thus, your point 3 is invalid.
However, I will agree that if you have a symlinked file, then Wget should not clobber it even with -r unless the file on the server has changed. In which case you need to use --timestamping to prevent that.

I will look into the symlink issue and see what I can find there.

Darshit Shah <darnir>
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Sat 27 Aug 2022 02:07:23 AM UTC, original submission:  

if a file is present on the my system, but is a sym-linked file, the file will get over-written

I manually downloaded a iso image last night,, but I want the rest of that directory tree which contains small files less than 1Mb, so I wait for wget to build the tree structure and ^C it as soon as it hits that file (its the 1st one after 'index.html' - I delete that as well), rm the new partial download, and sym-link the iso file

Then I restart wget with the same command line, and zap there goes the file contents.

1) without --no-clobber it should always create .1/.2/etc names, it does not (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60244)

2) with --no-clobber it should never create .1/.2/etc names (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34413)

3) with --no-clobber it especially should not over-write anything, at all, ever


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