great, thanks for the suggestions. yeah i am lookig for somethign that will be absolutely quiet when there is no error, but i have been using -nv in the meantime.
john On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: |is -nv (non-verbose) an improvement? | |$ wget -nv www.johnjosephbachir.org/ |12:50:57 URL:http://www.johnjosephbachir.org/ [3053/3053] -> "index.html" [1] |$ wget -nv www.johnjosephbachir.org/moooo |http://www.johnjosephbachir.org/moooo: |12:51:02 ERROR 404: Not Found. | |but if you're not satisfied you could use shell redirection and the tail |command: | |$ wget -nv www.johnjosephbachir.org/moooo 2>&1 > /dev/null | tail +2 | |you could use the return value of error to echo would ever you want. |$ wget -q www.johnjosephbachir.org/moooo || echo Error |Error | | |On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, John Joseph Bachir wrote: | |> it would be great if there was a flag that could be used with -q that |> would only give output if there was an error. |> |> i use wget a lot in pcs: |> |> johnjosephbachir.org/pcs |> |> thanks! |> john |
