Wget: Adding a prefix to downloaded files?

[michel . kempeneers]

Hi, 

I run into a particular problem when I'm trying to download a bunch of URLs I 
grouped together in file "input.txt" like this: 

wget -nv -a log.txt -P .\Images\ -i input.txt 

Some of these files are huge, hence take a long time to download. 
As a consequence, they will not appear in the same sorting order in the 
download folder as int he input folder, and that's a problem, as this order has 
its importance. 

I tried working around this problem by sorting the downloaded files using the 
"Date Created" info in Windows Explorer (that's a field which is not displayed 
by default, but it can be added to the folder pane as an extra column) 
But for reasons I don't understand, this order is also different --- maybe 
because Windows only considers a file as created when it is complete?? 
Hence, that's no solution either. 

So I wonder: 
is there a way to add a prefix (or even a counter) to a file when it is 
downloaded using Wget? 
This would be a piece of cake if it could be done in the input file 
"input.txt", but obviously, these are external URLs, hence they cannot be 
touched. 
Other tools like DownThemAll (aka "dTa"), the FireFox or Chrome extension which 
I use when a GUI can be used (as opposed to using a command line tool in a 
batch file), offers a prefix as a variable for the mask which can be applied to 
the names of the target files. This prefix is certainly not perfect (lacking 
a.o. some flexibility), but at least it allows to impose this desired order. 
So, does Wget have a similar construct? 
Or is there another solution which would preserve the source's file order? 


M.