Re: Mention multiple -O OK

> "TR" == Tim Rühsen writes: TR> I'd consider adding a paragraph to the OPTIONS/"Option Syntax" TR> sections in the man/info page. TR> Would you like to come up with a suggestion ? All I know is the flustered -O user won't be looking there, but instead will be looking at the -O section of

Re: Mention multiple -O OK

> "TR" == Tim Rühsen writes: TR> It is not possible to control the stored file names with multiple -O TR> options (missing feature). Yes, so the man page should warn that multiple -O's is in fact NOT OK, i.e., will not do what the user thinks.

Re: Mention multiple -O OK

> On (info "(wget) Download Options") and the man page too, > mention that one can use multiple -O's in the same command: > $ wget -O c emample.com -O n example.net ... > thus saving tons of DNS queries! Oops. Mention that this will be a disaster. As there is a bug: all will be written to "n".

Re: Mention multiple -O not OK

Even if one spells "example" correctly: $ wget -O c example.com -O n example.net $ curl -o C example.com -o N example.net $ ls -og ? -rw-r--r-- 1 1256 02-14 10:40 C -rw-r--r-- 1 1256 02-14 10:40 N -rw-r--r-- 1 2512 2019-10-17 n Same "bug" in wget2.

Mention multiple -O OK

On (info "(wget) Download Options") and the man page too, mention that one can use multiple -O's in the same command: $ wget -O c emample.com -O n example.net ... thus saving tons of DNS queries!

Re: Warn that --compression=gzip is not enforced

> "TR" == Tim Rühsen writes: TR> If you know that the server sends uncompressed content, you can TR> compress it yourself on-the-fly to avoid excessive disk space usage. TR> At least it works for single files: TR> wget -O- | gzip > radio.csv.gz That's nice but like

Warn that --compression=gzip is not enforced

The man page should mention for --compression=gzip, the website can still ignore it and send the whole file uncompressed. And wget is not picky, and still will accept it. So better have extra disk space ready. Tested with https://www.ncc.gov.tw/chinese/files/opendata/radio.csv .

wget man page should hit at existence of wget2

The wget man and Info pages should say "SEE ALSO wget2(1)" etc. else the user will never know.

Mention how to only get error messages

(info "(wget) Logging and Input File Options") says: ‘-nv’ ‘--no-verbose’ Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use ‘-q’ for that), which means that error messages and basic information still get printed. OK but do mention what the basic information is, and how to only

Add a new --command-lines, like -i but can add per-file options

One can do $ wget -O A B; wget -O C D But there is no way to combine them: $ wget -O A B -O C D # or $ wget -i -

Add a --dry-run or --simulate

Add a --dry-run or --simulate: Just print the actions wget would do, without doing them. For testing offline. --debug is not enough.

[Bug-wget] --debug causes "Setting --output-document" to repeat twice

Seen twice: $ wget -d -O K $@ Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to K Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to K GNU Wget 1.20.1 built on linux-gnu.

Re: [Bug-wget] Support file: scheme

> "TR" == Tim Rühsen writes: TR> Wget is not supposed to support file://. Yes, I am just saying if it did it would make testing easier. If something doesn't work, if it also doesn't even work with just file:///, then one would know it wasn't a network problem, etc.

Re: [Bug-wget] Support file: scheme

rsync too. In fact I can't think of one other remote copying / network downloader that doesn't also work just the same if given both a local origin and destination.

Re: [Bug-wget] Support file: scheme

Just like one can use $ scp fileA fileB with no network needed.

[Bug-wget] Support file: scheme

I can do $ curl file:///dev/null If I could do the same with wget, then I could e.g., see the effects of adding --quiet vs. not adding it, without needing a HTTP server.

Re: [Bug-wget] [bug #52898] ADD BUG EMAIL SUBMISSION ADDRESS TO DOCUMENTATION.

$ man wget|col -b|grep -c bug-wget@gnu.org 0 $ wget -h|grep -c bug-wget@gnu.org 1 $ man wget|col -b|grep -ic savannah 1 $ wget -h|grep -ic savannah 0 Same problem with (info "(wget) Reporting Bugs"). Be sure to mention both. (And not just refer to "mailing lists".) Many users are offline e.g., in