Recursive function does not work with -O

[Gekko]

wget -r http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=11 -O -
This returns the first page it downloads only, and does not continue to 
download the other links, while omitting the -O - allows the downloading to 
work.

# wget --version
GNU Wget 1.10.2

# uname -a
Linux [domain removed] 2.6.18.1 #1 Thu Feb 1 23:05:39 PUP 2007 i686 unknown 
unknown GNU/Linux
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Re: Recursive function does not work with -O

[Steven M. Schweda]

From: Gekko

 [...] returns the first page it downloads only, and does not continue
 to  download the other links, while omitting the -O - allows the
 downloading to work.

   That's right.  In recursive HTTP operation, wget expects to read its
own output files to find the links to follow.  It's not designed to read
its one-and-only -O output file to find links while it is writing that
file.  It would not be impossible to arrange this sort of thing, but it
would be complicated, and it's not obvious that it would be particularly
useful.  Why would you want to do this?  It should be relatively easy to
get the same effect with a normal wget -r command and a shell script
to go through the resulting files and cat them into a single mess.  I
still don't know why you'd want to do it, however.

   Thanks for including the wget and OS info in the question.  It's a
rare thing to get all the useful info around here.



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