RE: [Bug-wget] execute external command only if download occurs with time stamping

[Tony Lewis]

Micah Cowan wrote:

> Not sure the exit status is the best place to do that, though. Both
> cases really are success cases, and and should be treated as such.

I consider "success" to be "wget downloaded the files on the command line" (and 
possibly related files, e.g., --mirror). Even if it didn't download a file 
because of the conditions I put on the download, I think that's still a failure 
worthy of a status code. There could even be an status code reserved for 
"file(s) not downloaded because of user-specified restrictions."

I wouldn't include filtering options (such as --mirror --accept=jpg), but I 
would include --timestamping (the topic of this thread) and --no-clobber. (I 
realize that might sound like a contradiction, but it makes sense to me. :-)

Tony