Re: [Bug-wget] Problems with wget using -r and -O options

[Micah Cowan]

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Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> (Please CC me in replies as I am not subscribed to a mailing list.)
> 
> I am using wget 1.11.4 and in its man page it is written that using -r
> with -O is supported but that I will get a warning. I tried using it
> but it does not really work, I do get a warning though. I am using -O
> to output it to stdout and it seems that this is the problem. wget
> tries to reread the "output" to get links to follow, but rereading of
> stdout is not possible and so it fails with only the first page
> downloaded (and sent to stdout).
> 
> I have tried this both on Mac OS X (where it blocks after the first
> page waiting for stdin) and FreeBSD (where it downloads only the first
> page).

Yup. It doesn't work when you send it to stdout. Only when you send it
to a real file, and even that has extremely limited usefulness.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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