With lynx, I can use a 'lynx -dump' and redirect the output to a specific file name. How do I do the equivalent in wget? It seems to send save the file as the same name that was on the source location. This isn't bad if source is a straight-forward html or text file but when when you are invoking a cgi script with an argument, you get the argument as the filename that is saved. I can't see any flag that you can use to name the file. -o is the closest but this names the log file.

To summarize, I would like to be able to do something like:
wget www.xyz.com > test1.html
Is there some equivalent to this with wget?

See the wget man page for the output-document option.

I had been looking at the man page. I guess I didn't realize there was a difference between -o (specifies the log file) and -O (specifies the file I needed).

What I used is "wget -O test1.txt some-url"

Thanks, it works.