On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > next time, please send your answer to the mailing list as well (bug- > [email protected]), so others won't spent their precious time to answer an already > answered question. I put the list on CC for this mail, so your answer will be > visible there. > > There is a whole chapter about Time-Stamping in the original docs (wget.texi). > This chapter is left out in the man pages (i just can guess about the > reasons). > > If you use 'info wget' or 'pinfo wget' and you won't miss any of the docs ;-) > > There should be a hint in the man pages - right near -N, that there is an > extra chapter about the time-stamping details which can be viewed by 'info'. > I'm not sure why certain parts of the documentation aren't compiled into the man page.
Are there any advantages at all to this? > Tim > > On Monday 17 March 2014 07:28:37 Pierre Fortin wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:14:10 +0100 Tim Ruehsen wrote: >> >On Sunday 16 March 2014 18:10:30 Pierre Fortin wrote: >> >> wget -r -nd -A \*pdf http://www.ncrealtors.org/sampleforms.cfm >> > >> >You should add the option -N (aka --timestamping). >> > >> >Tim >> >> That works! Thanks Tim! >> >> BTW, the man page simply reads: >> -N >> --timestamping >> Turn on time-stamping. >> >> That provides no clue as to why it's useful. Could we add something like >> this?: >> >> In certain cases, this option will prevent re-downloading and deleting >> files. >> >> Or whatever is more correct... >> >> Cheers, >> Pierre > > -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
