Below is a paste of a ticket I opened at SourceForge. My question for the list is whether there exists a compiled version of wget for Windows that's not terribly old and doesn't have this problem. (By the way, I'm using Gmail. I read in a forum that Gmail is causing problems with some mailing lists because of a line-break issue. If that's the case here, I apologize. I did switch to plain text mode.)
I'm using the GetGnuWin32-0.6.3.exe package on Windows 7 64-bit. Everything seems to be fine, except that wget doesn't direct output to stdout correctly. If I do the following wget -qO- http://heerebout.nl/ > foo the output goes to the screen and "foo" ends up as a zero-byte file. It's not using stderr either; I tried 2>&1 and also 3>&1. No dice. More important, when doing something like the line below, the output is not changed. That means that scripts or batch files must save the output to a file in order to perform manipulations (as far as I can tell). wget -qO- http://heerebout.nl/ | sed s/Hello// Version: GNU Wget 1.12.1-dev Mar 04 2010 (mainline-013c8e2f5997) built on Windows-MinGW.
