Won't work, because Wget writes all its output to stderr. On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Pär Karlsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, at least on Unix like systems, there is the standard redirection > operators in the shell. If you don't want to see errors, just redirect > stderr to null, as in wget [...] 2>/dev/null > > > 2015-04-30 8:59 GMT+02:00 Darshit Shah <[email protected]>: >> >> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44966 (project wget): >> >> Not really. Sometimes I expect Wget to fail and do not want it's output >> messing my script up. In other cases, I know how to handle Wget's failures >> using exit codes and do not want the output to make things ugly. >> >> I usually run wget with -q --show-progress and would hate for errors to >> clutter up the otherwise perfect screen. >> >> Also, the -q switch should really be "quiet". We do not want to print >> *anything* at all if it can be avoided to the screen. >> >> The -nv switch is think is already that sweet spot between verbose and >> quiet. >> It will print only error messages and a success message for each file it >> downloads. >> >> In my opinion, we should not change / add any more verbosity options. >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> >> Reply to this item at: >> >> <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44966> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Message sent via/by Savannah >> http://savannah.gnu.org/ >> >> >
-- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
