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2000-11-16 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
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* wget.texi: Use --- consistently.
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Spell "Wget" with starting capital letter consistently.
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Use ``...'' or @dfn{} instead of simple double quotes where
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appropriate.
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Use double space as separator between sentences consistently.
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2000-11-15 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
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* wget.texi (Robots): Rearrange text. Mention the meta tag.
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@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ and @code{Range} with @sc{http} servers that support them.
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By default, Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network
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load, speed up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. However,
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if you are behind a firewall that requires that you use a socks style
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gateway, you can get the socks library and build wget with support for
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gateway, you can get the socks library and build Wget with support for
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socks. Wget also supports the passive @sc{ftp} downloading as an
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option.
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@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ with your favorite browser, like @code{Lynx} or @code{Netscape}.
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Since Wget uses GNU getopts to process its arguments, every option has a
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short form and a long form. Long options are more convenient to
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remember, but take time to type. You may freely mix different option
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styles, or specify options after the command-line arguments. Thus you
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styles, or specify options after the command-line arguments. Thus you
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may write:
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@example
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@ -466,29 +466,30 @@ automatically sets the number of tries to 1.
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@cindex no-clobber
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@item -nc
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@itemx --no-clobber
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If a file is downloaded more than once in the same directory, wget's
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If a file is downloaded more than once in the same directory, Wget's
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behavior depends on a few options, including @samp{-nc}. In certain
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cases, the local file will be "clobbered", or overwritten, upon repeated
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download. In other cases it will be preserved.
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cases, the local file will be @dfn{clobbered}, or overwritten, upon
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repeated download. In other cases it will be preserved.
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When running wget without @samp{-N}, @samp{-nc}, or @samp{-r},
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When running Wget without @samp{-N}, @samp{-nc}, or @samp{-r},
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downloading the same file in the same directory will result in the
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original copy of @samp{@var{file}} being preserved and the second copy
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being named @samp{@var{file}.1}. If that file is downloaded yet again,
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the third copy will be named @samp{@var{file}.2}, and so on. When
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@samp{-nc} is specified, this behavior is suppressed, and wget will
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original copy of @var{file} being preserved and the second copy being
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named @samp{@var{file}.1}. If that file is downloaded yet again, the
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third copy will be named @samp{@var{file}.2}, and so on. When
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@samp{-nc} is specified, this behavior is suppressed, and Wget will
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refuse to download newer copies of @samp{@var{file}}. Therefore,
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"no-clobber" is actually a misnomer in this mode -- it's not clobbering
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that's prevented (as the numeric suffixes were already preventing
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clobbering), but rather the multiple version saving that's prevented.
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``@code{no-clobber}'' is actually a misnomer in this mode---it's not
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clobbering that's prevented (as the numeric suffixes were already
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preventing clobbering), but rather the multiple version saving that's
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prevented.
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When running wget with @samp{-r}, but without @samp{-N} or @samp{-nc},
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When running Wget with @samp{-r}, but without @samp{-N} or @samp{-nc},
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re-downloading a file will result in the new copy simply overwriting the
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old. Adding @samp{-nc} will prevent this behavior, instead causing the
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original version to be preserved and any newer copies on the server to
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be ignored.
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When running wget with @samp{-N}, with or without @samp{-r}, the
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When running Wget with @samp{-N}, with or without @samp{-r}, the
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decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy of a file depends
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on the local and remote timestamp and size of the file
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(@pxref{Time-Stamping}). @samp{-nc} may not be specified at the same
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@ -604,7 +605,7 @@ reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry.
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@item --waitretry=@var{seconds}
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If you don't want Wget to wait between @emph{every} retrieval, but only
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between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option. Wget will
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use "linear backoff", waiting 1 second after the first failure on a
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use @dfn{linear backoff}, waiting 1 second after the first failure on a
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given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second failure on that
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file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify. Therefore,
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a value of 10 will actually make Wget wait up to (1 + 2 + ... + 10) = 55
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@ -616,7 +617,7 @@ Note that this option is turned on by default in the global
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@cindex proxy
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@item -Y on/off
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@itemx --proxy=on/off
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Turn proxy support on or off. The proxy is on by default if the
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Turn proxy support on or off. The proxy is on by default if the
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appropriate environmental variable is defined.
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@cindex quota
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@ -643,10 +644,10 @@ Setting quota to 0 or to @samp{inf} unlimits the download quota.
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@table @samp
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@item -nd
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@itemx --no-directories
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Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving
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recursively. With this option turned on, all files will get saved to the
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current directory, without clobbering (if a name shows up more than
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once, the filenames will get extensions @samp{.n}).
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Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively.
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With this option turned on, all files will get saved to the current
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directory, without clobbering (if a name shows up more than once, the
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filenames will get extensions @samp{.n}).
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@item -x
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@itemx --force-directories
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@ -712,8 +713,8 @@ current directory).
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@item -E
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@itemx --html-extension
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If a file of type @samp{text/html} is downloaded and the URL does not
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end with the regexp "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?", this option will cause the
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suffix @samp{.html} to be appended to the local filename. This is
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end with the regexp @samp{\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?}, this option will cause
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the suffix @samp{.html} to be appended to the local filename. This is
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useful, for instance, when you're mirroring a remote site that uses
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@samp{.asp} pages, but you want the mirrored pages to be viewable on
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your stock Apache server. Another good use for this is when you're
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@ -722,7 +723,7 @@ downloading the output of CGIs. A URL like
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@file{article.cgi?25.html}.
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Note that filenames changed in this way will be re-downloaded every time
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you re-mirror a site, because wget can't tell that the local
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you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the local
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@file{@var{X}.html} file corresponds to remote URL @samp{@var{X}} (since
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it doesn't yet know that the URL produces output of type
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@samp{text/html}. To prevent this re-downloading, you must use
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@ -846,7 +847,7 @@ would have encountered it separately and downloaded it anyway.
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When @samp{--retr-symlinks} is specified, however, symbolic links are
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traversed and the pointed-to files are retrieved. At this time, this
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option does not cause wget to traverse symlinks to directories and
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option does not cause Wget to traverse symlinks to directories and
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recurse through them, but in the future it should be enhanced to do
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this.
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@ -956,15 +957,16 @@ purposes.
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@cindex required images, downloading
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@item -p
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@itemx --page-requisites
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This option causes wget to download all the files that are necessary to
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This option causes Wget to download all the files that are necessary to
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properly display a given HTML page. This includes such things as
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inlined images, sounds, and referenced stylesheets.
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Ordinarily, when downloading a single HTML page, any requisite documents
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that may be needed to display it properly are not downloaded. Using
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@samp{-r} together with @samp{-l} can help, but since wget does not
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@samp{-r} together with @samp{-l} can help, but since Wget does not
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ordinarily distinguish between external and inlined documents, one is
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generally left with "leaf documents" that are missing their requisites.
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generally left with ``leaf documents'' that are missing their
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requisites.
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For instance, say document @file{1.html} contains an @code{<IMG>} tag
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referencing @file{1.gif} and an @code{<A>} tag pointing to external
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@ -980,7 +982,7 @@ wget -r -l 2 http://@var{site}/1.html
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then @file{1.html}, @file{1.gif}, @file{2.html}, @file{2.gif}, and
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@file{3.html} will be downloaded. As you can see, @file{3.html} is
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without its requisite @file{3.gif} because wget is simply counting the
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without its requisite @file{3.gif} because Wget is simply counting the
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number of hops (up to 2) away from @file{1.html} in order to determine
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where to stop the recursion. However, with this command:
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@ -1003,16 +1005,17 @@ wget -r -l 0 -p http://@var{site}/1.html
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@end example
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would download just @file{1.html} and @file{1.gif}, but unfortunately
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this is not the case, because @samp{-l 0} is equivalent to @samp{-l inf}
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-- that is, infinite recursion. To download a single HTML page (or a
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handful of them, all specified on the commandline or in a @samp{-i} @sc{url}
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input file) and its requisites, simply leave off @samp{-p} and @samp{-l}:
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this is not the case, because @samp{-l 0} is equivalent to
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@samp{-l inf}---that is, infinite recursion. To download a single HTML
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page (or a handful of them, all specified on the commandline or in a
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@samp{-i} @sc{url} input file) and its requisites, simply leave off
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@samp{-p} and @samp{-l}:
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@example
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wget -p http://@var{site}/1.html
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@end example
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Note that wget will behave as if @samp{-r} had been specified, but only
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Note that Wget will behave as if @samp{-r} had been specified, but only
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that single page and its requisites will be downloaded. Links from that
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page to external documents will not be followed. Actually, to download
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a single page and all its requisites (even if they exist on separate
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However, the author of this option came across a page with tags like
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@code{<LINK REL="home" HREF="/">} and came to the realization that
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@samp{-G} was not enough. One can't just tell wget to ignore
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@samp{-G} was not enough. One can't just tell Wget to ignore
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@code{<LINK>}, because then stylesheets will not be downloaded. Now the
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best bet for downloading a single page and its requisites is the
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dedicated @samp{--page-requisites} option.
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The complete set of commands is listed below. Legal values are listed
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after the @samp{=}. Simple Boolean values can be set or unset using
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@samp{on} and @samp{off} or @samp{1} and @samp{0}. A fancier kind of
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Boolean allowed in some cases is the "lockable" Boolean, which may be
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set to @samp{on}, @samp{off}, @samp{always}, or @samp{never}. If an
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Boolean allowed in some cases is the @dfn{lockable Boolean}, which may
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be set to @samp{on}, @samp{off}, @samp{always}, or @samp{never}. If an
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option is set to @samp{always} or @samp{never}, that value will be
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locked in for the duration of the wget invocation -- commandline options
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locked in for the duration of the Wget invocation---commandline options
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will not override.
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Some commands take pseudo-arbitrary values. @var{address} values can be
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Enable/disable host-prefixed file names. @samp{-nH} disables it.
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@item continue = on/off
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Enable/disable continuation of the retrieval -- the same as @samp{-c}
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Enable/disable continuation of the retrieval---the same as @samp{-c}
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(which enables it).
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@item background = on/off
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Enable/disable going to background -- the same as @samp{-b} (which enables
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it).
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Enable/disable going to background---the same as @samp{-b} (which
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enables it).
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@item backup_converted = on/off
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Enable/disable saving pre-converted files with the suffix @samp{.orig}
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-- the same as @samp{-K} (which enables it).
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Enable/disable saving pre-converted files with the suffix
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@samp{.orig}---the same as @samp{-K} (which enables it).
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@c @item backups = @var{number}
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@c #### Document me!
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@c
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@item base = @var{string}
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Consider relative @sc{url}s in @sc{url} input files forced to be
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interpreted as @sc{html} as being relative to @var{string} -- the same
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as @samp{-B}.
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interpreted as @sc{html} as being relative to @var{string}---the same as
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@samp{-B}.
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@item bind_address = @var{address}
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Bind to @var{address}, like the @samp{--bind-address} option.
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Debug mode, same as @samp{-d}.
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@item delete_after = on/off
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Delete after download -- the same as @samp{--delete-after}.
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Delete after download---the same as @samp{--delete-after}.
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@item dir_prefix = @var{string}
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Top of directory tree -- the same as @samp{-P}.
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Top of directory tree---the same as @samp{-P}.
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@item dirstruct = on/off
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Turning dirstruct on or off -- the same as @samp{-x} or @samp{-nd},
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Turning dirstruct on or off---the same as @samp{-x} or @samp{-nd},
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respectively.
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@item domains = @var{string}
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@item exclude_directories = @var{string}
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Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude from
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download -- the same as @samp{-X} (@pxref{Directory-Based Limits}).
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download---the same as @samp{-X} (@pxref{Directory-Based Limits}).
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@item exclude_domains = @var{string}
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Same as @samp{--exclude-domains} (@pxref{Domain Acceptance}).
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@item follow_ftp = on/off
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Follow @sc{ftp} links from @sc{html} documents -- the same as @samp{-f}.
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Follow @sc{ftp} links from @sc{html} documents---the same as @samp{-f}.
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@item follow_tags = @var{string}
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Only follow certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval, just like
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@samp{--follow-tags}.
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@samp{--follow-tags}.
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@item force_html = on/off
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If set to on, force the input filename to be regarded as an @sc{html}
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document -- the same as @samp{-F}.
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document---the same as @samp{-F}.
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@item ftp_proxy = @var{string}
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Use @var{string} as @sc{ftp} proxy, instead of the one specified in
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environment.
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@item glob = on/off
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Turn globbing on/off -- the same as @samp{-g}.
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Turn globbing on/off---the same as @samp{-g}.
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@item header = @var{string}
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Define an additional header, like @samp{--header}.
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@item ignore_tags = @var{string}
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Ignore certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval, just like
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@samp{-G} / @samp{--ignore-tags}.
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@samp{-G} / @samp{--ignore-tags}.
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@item include_directories = @var{string}
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Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to follow when
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downloading -- the same as @samp{-I}.
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downloading---the same as @samp{-I}.
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@item input = @var{string}
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Read the @sc{url}s from @var{string}, like @samp{-i}.
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@item kill_longer = on/off
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Consider data longer than specified in content-length header
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as invalid (and retry getting it). The default behaviour is to save
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as much data as there is, provided there is more than or equal
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to the value in @code{Content-Length}.
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Consider data longer than specified in content-length header as invalid
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(and retry getting it). The default behaviour is to save as much data
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as there is, provided there is more than or equal to the value in
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@code{Content-Length}.
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@item logfile = @var{string}
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Set logfile -- the same as @samp{-o}.
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Set logfile---the same as @samp{-o}.
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@item login = @var{string}
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Your user name on the remote machine, for @sc{ftp}. Defaults to
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proxy loading, instead of the one specified in environment.
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@item output_document = @var{string}
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Set the output filename -- the same as @samp{-O}.
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Set the output filename---the same as @samp{-O}.
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@item page_requisites = on/off
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Download all ancillary documents necessary for a single HTML page to
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display properly -- the same as @samp{-p}.
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display properly---the same as @samp{-p}.
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@item passive_ftp = on/off/always/never
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Set passive @sc{ftp} -- the same as @samp{--passive-ftp}. Some scripts
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Set passive @sc{ftp}---the same as @samp{--passive-ftp}. Some scripts
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and @samp{.pm} (Perl module) files download files using @samp{wget
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--passive-ftp}. If your firewall does not allow this, you can set
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@samp{passive_ftp = never} to override the commandline.
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@item referer = @var{string}
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Set HTTP @samp{Referer:} header just like @samp{--referer}. (Note it
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was the folks who wrote the @sc{http} spec who got the spelling of
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"referrer" wrong.)
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``referrer'' wrong.)
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@item quiet = on/off
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Quiet mode -- the same as @samp{-q}.
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Quiet mode---the same as @samp{-q}.
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@item quota = @var{quota}
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Specify the download quota, which is useful to put in the global
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@file{wgetrc}. When download quota is specified, Wget will stop retrieving
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after the download sum has become greater than quota. The quota can be
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specified in bytes (default), kbytes @samp{k} appended) or mbytes
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(@samp{m} appended). Thus @samp{quota = 5m} will set the quota to 5
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mbytes. Note that the user's startup file overrides system settings.
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@file{wgetrc}. When download quota is specified, Wget will stop
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retrieving after the download sum has become greater than quota. The
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quota can be specified in bytes (default), kbytes @samp{k} appended) or
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mbytes (@samp{m} appended). Thus @samp{quota = 5m} will set the quota
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to 5 mbytes. Note that the user's startup file overrides system
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settings.
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@item reclevel = @var{n}
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Recursion level -- the same as @samp{-l}.
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Recursion level---the same as @samp{-l}.
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@item recursive = on/off
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Recursive on/off -- the same as @samp{-r}.
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Recursive on/off---the same as @samp{-r}.
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@item relative_only = on/off
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Follow only relative links -- the same as @samp{-L} (@pxref{Relative
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Follow only relative links---the same as @samp{-L} (@pxref{Relative
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Links}).
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@item remove_listing = on/off
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@ -1940,7 +1944,7 @@ what you are doing before changing the default (which is @samp{on}).
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@item server_response = on/off
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Choose whether or not to print the @sc{http} and @sc{ftp} server
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responses -- the same as @samp{-S}.
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responses---the same as @samp{-S}.
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@item simple_host_check = on/off
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Same as @samp{-nh} (@pxref{Host Checking}).
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@ -1949,27 +1953,27 @@ Same as @samp{-nh} (@pxref{Host Checking}).
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Same as @samp{-H}.
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@item timeout = @var{n}
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Set timeout value -- the same as @samp{-T}.
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Set timeout value---the same as @samp{-T}.
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@item timestamping = on/off
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Turn timestamping on/off. The same as @samp{-N} (@pxref{Time-Stamping}).
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Turn timestamping on/off. The same as @samp{-N} (@pxref{Time-Stamping}).
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@item tries = @var{n}
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Set number of retries per @sc{url} -- the same as @samp{-t}.
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Set number of retries per @sc{url}---the same as @samp{-t}.
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@item use_proxy = on/off
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Turn proxy support on/off. The same as @samp{-Y}.
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Turn proxy support on/off. The same as @samp{-Y}.
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@item verbose = on/off
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||||
Turn verbose on/off -- the same as @samp{-v}/@samp{-nv}.
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Turn verbose on/off---the same as @samp{-v}/@samp{-nv}.
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@item wait = @var{n}
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Wait @var{n} seconds between retrievals -- the same as @samp{-w}.
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Wait @var{n} seconds between retrievals---the same as @samp{-w}.
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@item waitretry = @var{n}
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||||
Wait up to @var{n} seconds between retries of failed retrievals only --
|
||||
the same as @samp{--waitretry}. Note that this is turned on by default
|
||||
in the global @file{wgetrc}.
|
||||
Wait up to @var{n} seconds between retries of failed retrievals
|
||||
only---the same as @samp{--waitretry}. Note that this is turned on by
|
||||
default in the global @file{wgetrc}.
|
||||
@end table
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||||
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||||
@node Sample Wgetrc, , Wgetrc Commands, Startup File
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||||
@ -2466,9 +2470,8 @@ $ wget http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/gnus.tar.gz &
|
||||
$ kill -HUP %% # Redirect the output to wget-log
|
||||
@end example
|
||||
|
||||
Other than that, Wget will not try to interfere with signals in any
|
||||
way. @kbd{C-c}, @code{kill -TERM} and @code{kill -KILL} should kill it
|
||||
alike.
|
||||
Other than that, Wget will not try to interfere with signals in any way.
|
||||
@kbd{C-c}, @code{kill -TERM} and @code{kill -KILL} should kill it alike.
|
||||
|
||||
@node Appendices, Copying, Various, Top
|
||||
@chapter Appendices
|
||||
@ -2787,11 +2790,12 @@ subscribers of the Wget mailing list.
|
||||
@cindex GFDL
|
||||
|
||||
Wget is @dfn{free software}, where ``free'' refers to liberty, not
|
||||
price. The exact legal distribution terms follow below, but in short,
|
||||
it means that you have the right (freedom) to run and change and copy
|
||||
Wget, and even---if you want---charge money for any of those things.
|
||||
The sole restriction is that you have to grant your recipients the same
|
||||
rights.
|
||||
price. As the GNU people like to say, think of ``free speech'' rather
|
||||
than ``free beer''. The exact legal distribution terms follow below,
|
||||
but in short, you have the right (freedom) to run and change Wget and
|
||||
distribute it to other people, and even---if you want---charge money for
|
||||
any of these things. The sole restriction is that you have to grant
|
||||
your recipients the same rights.
|
||||
|
||||
This method of licensing software is also known as @dfn{open-source},
|
||||
because it requires that the recipients always receive a program's
|
||||
|
||||
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