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Re: Why cURL wrote the retrieved file to the shell window.........

From: Jochen Roderburg <Roderburg_at_uni-koeln.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:52:46 +0100

John Dutcher schrieb:
>
> curl -O http://www.netscape.com/index.html
> ******************************************************************************
> I entered this line into my Win 2000 command prompt:
>
> c:\curl\curl -0 http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/pufdownload/rvu05a_r.zip
>
> expecting the return to be a file named 'rvu05a_r.zip' to be placed on my
> c: drive...
>
> Instead the entire file was displayed and scrolled across my shell window
> with much bell ringing etc.
> No file on the hard drive.... How Come ??

Because you typed an 0 (digit zero) and not an O (capital letter o) ;-)

Regards,

Jochen Roderburg
ZAIK/RRZK
University of Cologne
Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/478-7024
D-50931 Koeln E-Mail: Roderburg_at_rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE
Germany
Received on 2005-01-13