"catchall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hiya Folks,
>
> Congratulations on bringing wget to the world.
>
> A couple of suggestions that might make it even better
>
> a: An option to output only the time to download ( for performance
> testing ).
>
> b: An option to output only the size of the file retrieved.
Can you give an example of the output you're looking for? I'm not quite
sure what you have in mind, and whether by "only" you mean it shouldn't
actually save the downloaded files, etc.
> I've just written a collection of bash scripts to get the page ranking of a
> given url on a given search engine for a given search string, it makes
> considerable use of wget.
>
> If you want a copy, please ask, though I'm sure that there is already better
> stuff out there doing the same job.
>
> I have a commercial website ( www.superquote.com and www.superquote.co.uk )
> for uk and usa car insurance quotes, and it's all done with gnu/linux.
>
> From my program I can tell you that you rank on page 2 of google for "linux
> kernal". I tried lots of other sensible search strings, but you were on
> page one for most of them, which is not telling you much.
Who do you mean by "you"? www.gnu.org? (Most of the Wget community is not
directly affiliated with GNU, though it is, of course, a GNU project.)
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