where does wget put its file

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:32 +1100, david wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:12, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:52, david wrote:
> > 
> > > thats the trouble i was at root when the download started and i cannt
> > > find any files, by name, by size anywhere from root on down
> > > got me
> > > its downloading from ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/???????
> > > so it should of created a folder called mirror.pacific.net.au
> > > would this be correct?
> > > but its still not there either.
> > > it still downloading madly, i just hope its saving them somewhere
> > > its actually all the files to make and iso from
> > > havent found a repository for 64bit man 10.1
> > > thanks
> > 
> > Not to sound like a smartass, but:
> > 
> > # pwd
> > 
> > should tell you what directory your files are in.  Unless you specifically 
> > gave wget a destination folder to put files into, it should download them 
> > into your current working directory.  It would not have created a folder 
> > called mirror.pacific.net.au or whatever; it would have just put the files 
> > into the directory you're currently in.  When I used wget earlier today to 
> > get the gpg keys for the kde-redhat repository, the file was placed in my 
> > current working directory, no subdirectories created or anything like that.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford at mossroot.com)
> > AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com
> > "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."
> > -Mark Twain
> 
> 
> yes well mmmm
> pwd reveals /root
> is there a way of accessing this folder from a user or do i have to go
> into root login to get there and have a look
> im still downloading and it seems to be happy
> i gave the command: root]#wget -m URL????
> so thats where they are
> thanks
> david
> 
1.  You are doing downloads as root.  That can be bad security wise.

2.  /root is only accessible by root, or by using some of the tools
available such as su or sudo.  If you modify/have modified your system
to allow any average user to access /root that can be very bad.

You obviously were either logged in as root or had su-ed to root for the
files to be placed there.  You can access the files the same way you
downloaded them.