Re: Feature Request: Stop on error from input url file list.

2002-07-01 Thread Andre Majorel 

On 2002-06-29 21:09 -0400, Dang P. Tran wrote:

 I use the -i option to download files from an url list. The
 server I use have a password that change often. When I have a
 large list if the password change while I'm downloading and give
 401 error, I want wget stop to prevent hammering the site with
 bad password.

A workaround :

  $ echo '#!/bin/sh' wrapper
  $ echo 'wget $@ || kill $PPID' wrapper
  $ chmod +x wrapper
  $ xargs -n10 ./wrapper urllist

If for whatever reason Wget exits with a non-zero status, xargs
is killed. Thus the server will be hit at most 9 too many times.

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André Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/

Feature Request: Stop on error from input url file list.

2002-06-29 Thread Dang P. Tran 



Hi,
I use the -i option to download files from an url list. 
Theserver I use have a password that change often. When I have a large 
listif the password change while I'm downloading and give 401 
error,I want wget stop to prevent hammering the site with bad 
password.

Thanks,