Re: Why building wget requires wget command?

2020-08-09 Thread Darshit Shah
Hi, Please use bug-wget@gnu.org in the future for questions and help. It has a wider audience who will answer your questions. About your problem, we are aware of it. It happens because upstream gnulib project wants defaults to Wget for downloading the translation files. It is however

Re: Meaning of --timeout

2020-08-09 Thread Peng Yu
I saw that in the man. What are the rest of the time besides dns-time, connect-time, read-time? Thanks. On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 5:50 AM Tim Rühsen wrote: > Hi, > > --timeout is explained in `man wget`. > > In short: it doesn't stop wget after N seconds - it's a shortcut for > setting

Re: Meaning of --timeout

2020-08-09 Thread Tim Rühsen
Hi, --timeout is explained in `man wget`. In short: it doesn't stop wget after N seconds - it's a shortcut for setting --dns-timeout + --connect-timeout + --read-timeout. For such tasks you can easily use the `timeout` command from GNU coreutils. Regards, Tim On 08.08.20 21:05, Peng Yu wrote: