On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ralf Friedl <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Behavior of downloading multiple urls with bbox "wget -O" is not
>> obvious and is a compatibility issue with original wget.
>>
>> >From gnu wget man page:
>> `-O FILE' `--output-document=FILE' The documents will not be written
>> to the appropriate files, but all will be
>>       concatenated together and written to FILE...
>
> Is this case -O with multiple URLs really worth the effort?
>

Well not at all, unless you want to run remote web scripts for example
(without getting the output :D)
anyway -O is probably not the most common option with multiple URLs

> By the way, GNU wget doesn't reopen the file with append mode, the output
> file is opened only once and everything is written to this file.
>

Ok, this is more optimal, but not a compatibility issue. I could try
to write such patch but for now I think I'm not trained enough (Oh
well, I'm sure of that)

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