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@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ Added: 7.20.0
See-also: remote-name
---
This option tells the --remote-name option to use the server-specified
-Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL.
+Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL. If
+the server-provided file name contains a path, that will be stripped off
+before the file name is used.
+
+The file is saved in the current directory, or in the directory specified with
+--output-dir.
If the server specifies a file name and a file with that name already exists
-in the current working directory it will not be overwritten and an error will
+in the destination directory, it will not be overwritten and an error will
occur. If the server does not specify a file name then this option has no
effect.