Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you might be actually right. the real problem here is that the > semantics of -O are too generic and not well-defined.
The semantics of -O are well-defined, but they're not what people expect. In other words, -O breaks the "principle of least surprise". > in this case, the redirection command would simply write all the > downloaded data to the output without performing any > trasformation. on the other hand, the output filename command could > perform more complex operations, That seems to break the principle of least surprise as well. If such an option is specified, maybe Wget should simply refuse to accept more than a single URL.
