Re: The -O option of curl under cygwin.

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 1/2/2012 3:21 PM, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use latest cygwin (setup-version: 2.763), and I meet the following
> issue:
>
> I use the following command to download the setup-2.9.4321.exe, which is
> the setup program for miktex:
>
> curl -L http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/
> setup-2.9.4321.exe -O ./miktex/setup/
>
> In this case, the setup-2.9.4321.exe should be put into the ./miktex/
> setup/ with the original filename, but I always find that the
> setup-2.9.4321.exe is put into the current working directory.  Any hints
> on this issue?

I think you misunderstood the curl documentation,
in this way it works as you expect

curl -L 
http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/win32/miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe -o 
./miktex/setup/setup-2.9.4321.exe --create-dirs

> Best regards.

Marco

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