as some of you have noticed, i've recently disabled the use of -N in combination with -O in soon-to-be-released wget 1.11. in fact, not only concurrent use -O and -N has been broken since the dawn of time, but i believe it breaks the principle of least suprise and i don't think it is widely used.
let me clarify once again that the semantics of -O are intentionally similar to a unix shell output redirection. they were not meant to specify a custom naming pattern for downloaded resources (future versions of wget will likely have a dedicated command-line option for this). in this context, i believe that allowing -N to be used w/ -O could be very confusing.
Louis Gosselin (included in CC) asked me to reconsider my decision, as he believes the concurrent use of -O and -N options is actually very helpful. so, before i cross the point of no return and deprecate concurrent use of -O and -N, i would like to hear your opinions.
-- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
