====== Ubuntu - wget - Download and Store With a Different File name ======

By default wget will pick the filename from the last word after last forward slash, which may not be appropriate always.

Wrong: Following example will download and store the file with name: download_script.php?src_id=7701

<code bash>
wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=7701
</code>

Even though the downloaded file is in zip format, it will get stored in the file as shown below.

<code bash>
ls
</code>

Displays:

<code>
download_script.php?src_id=7701
</code>


Correct: To correct this issue, we can specify the output file name using the -O option as:

<code bash>
wget -O taglist.zip http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=7701
</code>