@c %**start of header
@setfilename wget.info
@include version.texi
-@set UPDATED May 2003
+@set UPDATED Jan 2005
@settitle GNU Wget @value{VERSION} Manual
@c Disable the monstrous rectangles beside overfull hbox-es.
@finalout
data.
@c man begin COPYRIGHT
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
This manual documents version @value{VERSION} of GNU Wget, the freely
available utility for network downloads.
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@menu
* Overview:: Features of Wget.
Execute @var{command} as if it were a part of @file{.wgetrc}
(@pxref{Startup File}). A command thus invoked will be executed
@emph{after} the commands in @file{.wgetrc}, thus taking precedence over
-them.
+them. If you need to specify more than one wgetrc command, use multiple
+instances of @samp{-e}.
+
@end table
@node Logging and Input File Options
@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
integer, or @samp{inf} for infinity, where appropriate. @var{string}
values can be any non-empty string.
-Most of these commands have command-line equivalents (@pxref{Invoking}),
-though some of the more obscure or rarely used ones do not.
+Most of these commands have direct command-line equivalents. Also, any
+wgetrc command can be specified on the command line using the
+@samp{--execute} switch (@pxref{Basic Startup Options}.)
@table @asis
@item accept/reject = @var{string}
Roger Beeman,
Dan Berger,
T. Bharath,
+Christian Biere,
Paul Bludov,
Daniel Bodea,
Mark Boyns,
@end ifnottex
Andy Eskilsson,
Christian Fraenkel,
+David Fritz,
Masashi Fujita,
Howard Gayle,
Marcel Gerrits,
@ifnottex
Bojan Zdrnja,
@end ifnottex
-Kristijan Zimmer.
+Kristijan Zimmer,
+YAMAZAKI Makoto,
+Leonid Petrov,
+Hans-Andreas Engel,
+Ulf Harnhammar,
+Jan Minar.
Apologies to all who I accidentally left out, and many thanks to all the
subscribers of the Wget mailing list.
@smallexample
@var{one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.}
-Copyright (C) 19@var{yy} @var{name of author}
+Copyright (C) 20@var{yy} @var{name of author}
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
when it starts in an interactive mode:
@smallexample
-Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19@var{yy} @var{name of author}
+Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 20@var{yy} @var{name of author}
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome
to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c'