added option --https-only

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 710f0ac41716f43f1bb16bcff385ab67273f7059..cced7edda118e268b6f290ae272380179044dbce 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -630,6 +630,13 @@ Note that when @samp{-nc} is specified, files with the suffixes
 @samp{.html} or @samp{.htm} will be loaded from the local disk and
 parsed as if they had been retrieved from the Web.
 
+@cindex backing up files
+@item --backups=@var{backups}
+Before (over)writing a file, back up an existing file by adding a
+@samp{.1} suffix (@samp{_1} on VMS) to the file name.  Such backup
+files are rotated to @samp{.2}, @samp{.3}, and so on, up to
+@var{backups} (and lost beyond that).
+
 @cindex continue retrieval
 @cindex incomplete downloads
 @cindex resume download
@@ -735,7 +742,7 @@ Turn on time-stamping.  @xref{Time-Stamping}, for details.
 @item --no-use-server-timestamps
 Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server.
 
-By default, when a file is downloaded, it's timestamps are set to
+By default, when a file is downloaded, its timestamps are set to
 match those from the remote file. This allows the use of
 @samp{--timestamping} on subsequent invocations of wget. However, it
 is sometimes useful to base the local file's timestamp on when it was
@@ -1599,6 +1606,9 @@ buggy SSL server implementations that make it hard for OpenSSL to
 choose the correct protocol version.  Fortunately, such servers are
 quite rare.
 
+@item --https-only
+When in recursive mode, only HTTPS links are followed.
+
 @cindex SSL certificate, check
 @item --no-check-certificate
 Don't check the server certificate against the available certificate
@@ -1816,6 +1826,10 @@ in some rare firewall configurations, active FTP actually works when
 passive FTP doesn't.  If you suspect this to be the case, use this
 option, or set @code{passive_ftp=off} in your init file.
 
+@cindex file permissions
+@item --preserve-permissions
+Preserve remote file permissions instead of permissions set by umask.
+
 @cindex symbolic links, retrieving
 @item --retr-symlinks
 Usually, when retrieving @sc{ftp} directories recursively and a symbolic
@@ -2057,6 +2071,11 @@ it will be treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix.
 @itemx --reject-regex @var{urlregex}
 Specify a regular expression to accept or reject the complete URL.
 
+@item --regex-type @var{regextype}
+Specify the regular expression type.  Possible types are @samp{posix} or
+@samp{pcre}.  Note that to be able to use @samp{pcre} type, wget has to be
+compiled with libpcre support.
+
 @item -D @var{domain-list}
 @itemx --domains=@var{domain-list}
 Set domains to be followed.  @var{domain-list} is a comma-separated list
@@ -2873,9 +2892,11 @@ enables it).
 Enable/disable saving pre-converted files with the suffix
 @samp{.orig}---the same as @samp{-K} (which enables it).
 
-@c @item backups = @var{number}
-@c #### Document me!
-@c
+@item backups = @var{number}
+Use up to @var{number} backups for a file.  Backups are rotated by
+adding an incremental counter that starts at @samp{1}.  The default is
+@samp{0}.
+
 @item base = @var{string}
 Consider relative @sc{url}s in input files (specified via the
 @samp{input} command or the @samp{--input-file}/@samp{-i} option,