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Matthias Vill wrote:
Should --spider imply --recursive?
I guess many people expect it to behave that way (and therefore I think
it is a good idea that the output complains on not using --recursive,
but still some may want to have a
On 8/18/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not convinced. To me, the name spider implies recursion, and it's
counter-intuitive for it not to.
As to wasted functionality, what's wrong with -O /dev/null (or NUL or
whatever) for simply checking existence?
I see his point. The
Is there any particular reason the --spider option requires
--recursive? As it is now, we run into the following error if we omit
--recursive:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cprojects/wget/src$ ./wget
http://www.google.com --spider
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
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Hi Josh,
the manual reads:
--spider
When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web spider, which
means that it will not down-load the pages, just check that they are
there. For example, you can use Wget to check your book-marks:
wget --spider --force-html -i
