Someone (rudely) suggested it was unacceptable to ask for a 'cc' rather than joining the email list. If this is so, I apologise, but would like to point out that I was only following the suggestion on the wget web page :
<http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html#mailinglists> "...If you send a post to the list and you're not subscribed, please include a note that you'd like to be cc'd in replies to your post. Otherwise people will assume you are subscribed and will delete your address when replying so as not to send you two copies of their posts..." Perhaps an additional note might be in order. It was also 'suggested' (again, rudely) that a version number might be useful. I was using 1.7.1, but just downloaded 1.8.1 and looked at the '-h' options and there didn't seem to be anything applicable to my suggestion. Thanks for any constructive responses. Again, please 'cc' me. Max. Max Waterman wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had need to pipe what wget retrieved through a command before > writing to disk. There was no way I could do this with the version I had. > > What I would like to wget to do is to create a tar stream of the files > and directories it is downloading and send that to stdout, kind of like : > > tar -cvvf - files... > > then I could pipe that into whatever I wanted, for example : > > $ wget -r -l 3 --tar 'http://www.sgi.com/' | other commands | tar -xvvf - > > Anyone think this is a good idea? > > Please 'cc' me, since I am not on the email list. > > Thanks. > > Max. >
