Re: [Bug-wget] wget creates zero sized file in case of error

[Micah Cowan]

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Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> wget creates zero sized file when some error from remote server is catched. 
> This sounds like bug. IMO it shouldn't create such file.

> address@hidden ~/test]$ wget http://ble.pl/dfsfddf -O crap

For better or for worse, Wget's -O option has always behaved exactly
like a shell redirection (with the exception that -nc actually works as
expected with it) - creating the file before anything else takes place
(see the manual). After a long history of this behavior, changing it now
is likely to break existing scripts that rely upon it, so we don't.

If we want an option with more intuitive (IMO) behavior, we need to
write it as a new and distinct option. Patches encouraged.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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