this option is discouraged, unless you really know what you are
doing.
- *NOTE* that Netscape Communications Corp. has claimed that false
- transmissions of `Mozilla' as the `User-Agent' are a copyright
- infringement, which will be prosecuted. *DO NOT* misrepresent
- Wget as Mozilla.
-
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`--delete-after'
This option tells Wget to delete every single file it downloads,
*after* having done so. It is useful for pre-fetching popular
- pages through proxy, e.g.:
+ pages through a proxy, e.g.:
wget -r -nd --delete-after http://whatever.com/~popular/page/
- The `-r' option is to retrieve recursively, and `-nd' not to
+ The `-r' option is to retrieve recursively, and `-nd' to not
create directories.
+ Note that `--delete-after' deletes files on the local machine. It
+ does not issue the `DELE' command to remote FTP sites, for
+ instance. Also note that when `--delete-after' is specified,
+ `--convert-links' is ignored, so `.orig' files are simply not
+ created in the first place.
+
`-k'
`--convert-links'
Convert the non-relative links to relative ones locally. Only the