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This command won't work.
Better? I was not sure did it with cd and forgot the parameters for wget XD isnt it
-O /path/to/destination/
?I think you can just replace wget with curl.
Alternatively
-O -
I think.You can't use the path directly because of permissions. And you shouldn't run wget with root permissions.
Yes thats why I did that and seperated it from the wget as I also think thats not the best idea
Okay fixed it. Damn thats weird, I think I just used
sudo wget X -O /path/
but not a good idea I guess.Why won’t it work?
Because wget doesn't use standard output for the downloaded file by default, instead it creates a file with the name in the url in the workingdir. If you want it to use standard output you need
-O -