hi...

don't know offhand if curl has an option to add a version number to
your output file, if an earlier version already exists...

but you can easily write a shell script/batch file to accomplish this..

good luck!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I download a file by curl, I use -o switch to write the file as a
> local file, say, file1.me.  The issue is: if a file with the same
> filename already exists in the target folder, the original file will
> be overwrited.  So, how can I let curl automatically rename a
> downloaded file to avoid filename conflict in the above case?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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