From 1a9c0f6c31caa28a5de8ab271cb29a04e834929e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mtortonesi Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:16:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Describe limitations of combining the -O and -k options. --- doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ doc/wget.texi | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 7894426a..d285c7d8 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2004-11-20 Hans-Andreas Engel + + * wget.texi: Describe limitations of combining `-O' with `-k'. + 2004-05-13 Nico R. * Makefile.in: Allow building in a separate tree with source tree diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi index 3b518d53..e1389fc4 100644 --- a/doc/wget.texi +++ b/doc/wget.texi @@ -518,8 +518,11 @@ which are not retried. @itemx --output-document=@var{file} The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will be concatenated together and written to @var{file}. If @var{file} -already exists, it will be overwritten. If the @var{file} is @samp{-}, -the documents will be written to standard output. +already exists, it will be overwritten. If the @var{file} is @samp{-}, +the documents will be written to standard output (disabling @samp{-k}). + +Note that a combination with @samp{-k} is only well-defined for downloading +a single document. @cindex clobbering, file @cindex downloading multiple times