From: Andrew Lorimer <andrew@charles.cortex>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 04:21:54 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: optional destination file, verbose debugging for wget in syslog
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/scripts.git/diff_plain/f63497ac860cb389b0afc27e420f95129dc3ea05?ds=inline;hp=--cc

optional destination file, verbose debugging for wget in syslog
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f63497ac860cb389b0afc27e420f95129dc3ea05
diff --git a/nameget.sh b/nameget.sh
index edc1e2e..b083568 100755
--- a/nameget.sh
+++ b/nameget.sh
@@ -28,11 +28,15 @@ otherargs=$@													# set aside remaining arguments for passing to wget
 logger -s -t $LOGTAG "starting downloading files in $list"
 
 while read -r url filename; do
-  if wget --cut-dirs=100 -np -e robots=off -O $outdir$filename $otherargs $url; then
+  destarg = ''
+  if [ -n "$filename" ]; then
+    $destarg = " -O $outdir$filename"
+
+  if output=$(wget --cut-dirs=100 -np -e robots=off -P $outdir$destarg  $otherargs $url); then
 		sed -i "/$filename/d" $list
 		echo $filename
 		logger -s -t $LOGTAG "downloaded $filename"
 	else
-		logger -s -t $LOGTAG "downloading of $filename from $url failed."
+		logger -s -t $LOGTAG "downloading of $filename from $url failed: $output"
 	fi
 done < $list