I'm fairly new to Curl, but I've found it to be quite a bit more flexible than
WGET. However, I'd like to request a feature. I'd like a mechanizm for
renaming a downloaded file if the output file already exists.

For example, something like this

-O/--remote-name <file format>

curl -O $FILE_$### http://www.yahoo.com/index.html
  This would save a series of files like this with each subsiquent call
    index.html_001
    index.html_002
    index.html_003

Some other useful file formats might be
  $#### - a sequential number based on prexisting files in the directory
  $DATE - current date
  $TIME - current time
  $HOST - current hostname
  $PATH - path to the file for example, path to
          http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
          would contain "/docs"

Anyway, keep up the good work!
--David H.

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Received on 2001-10-29