Hi there,
I was looking for a tool to retrieve web pages and print them to standard out. As windows user I tried wget from Cygwin, but it created a file and I could not find the option to redirect output to standard out.
Then I browsed throught the online documentation and found the -O option in the manual (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget-1.8.1/html_mono/wget.html#IDX131).
I thought great, problem solved, but Cygwin wget version 1.9 does not accept "-O", although the NEWS file does not state removal of this feature.
Your official site (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html) states 1.8 as latest version with the option -O in the manual, so why can Cygwin have version 1.9 and does not support -O ?
kind regards, Mike
It might help if you would post the invocations you tried and also the output Wget produced.
But, I'd guess you probably had a non-option argument before –O. For a while now, the version of getopt_long() included with Cygwin has had argument permutation disabled by default. (It's recently been re-enabled in CVS, but not yet in a released version.) So, under Cygwin you'll need to place all option arguments before any non-option arguments. Like this, for instance:
$ wget –O - http://www.gnu.org/
HTH, Cheers
