On 9 Apr 2002 at 10:34, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > "Ian Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 5 Apr 2002 at 18:17, Noel Koethe wrote: > >> Will this be changed so the user could use -nv with >/dev/null > >> and get only errors or warnings displayed? > > > > So what I think you want is for any log message tagged as > > LOG_VERBOSE (verbose information) or LOG_NONVERBOSE (basic > > information) in the source to go to stdout when no log file has been > > specified and the `-O -' option has not been used and for everything > > else to go to stderr? > > That change sounds dangerous. Current Wget output doesn't really have > a concept of "errors" that would be really separate from other output; > it only operates on the level of "verbosity". This was, of course, a > bad design decision, and I agree that steps need to be taken to change > it. I'm just not sure that this is the right step.
Neither am I, but I knocked up the patch on a whim. > Suddenly `wget -o X' is no longer equivalent to `wget 2>x', which > violates the Principle of Least Surprise. Perhaps we just need a --log-level=N option: Level 0: output just the LOG_ALWAYS messages. Level 1: output the above and LOG_NOTQUIET messages. Level 2: output the above and LOG_NONVERBOSE messages. Level 3: output the above and LOG_VERBOSE messages. The --verbose option would be equivalent to --log-level=3 (the default). The --non-verbose option would be equivalent to --log-level=2. The --quiet option would be equivalent to --log-level=1. Noel would specify --log-level=1 to get the output he wants. How does that sound?
