Re: Is it possible to get wget --content-disposition to overwrite an existing file.

[Mark Sapiro]

On 3/3/24 10:35 AM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> Wget tries not to overwrite files.
>
> But if you want to remove the old file, no matter what, why don't you 
> remove (or rename) that file before calling wget?


Thanks for the response. I understand that I can do that, but the wget 
is part of an automated Python script. I had already modified that 
script to rename the downloaded file, but in the interest of 
simplification I wanted to just do the whole thing with a single call to 
`wget --content-disposition`.

Anyway, this is all moot now. Originally, the script was using Python's 
urllib.request module to retrieve the file, but the server recently 
started blocking GETs from that module so I started using wget instead. 
I then realized I could set the User-Agent header in the GET request to 
avoid the block, and that's what I'm doing now.

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