Hi Dan, For this usecase, I would highly recommmend using the successor to GNU Wget, GNU Wget2. It is not available in most distribution repositories. See https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
Wget2 supports reading from stdin throughout the life of the program. On Sat, Mar 2, 2024, at 09:35, Dan Lewis via Primary discussion list for GNU Wget wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a program that loads and executes wget using the following command > line: > > wget -i - -O - > > > and dups wget's stdin, stdout (and stderr) handles so that I can write URLs > to wget's stdin and read the responses from wget's stdout. What I wanted to > do was to write a sequence of URLs to wget's stdin, reading each response > before the next URL is sent. Rather, wget buffers its output so that it > doesn't output anything until I close its stdin. As a result, it seems that I > can only send all of the URLs to wget, close its stdin, and then read all > of the responses. > > Is there any wget command line option that will cause wget to output a > response after each URL without waiting for me to close its stdin? > > Thanks! > Dan
