@set Wget Wget
@c man title Wget The non-interactive network downloader.
-@dircategory Network Applications
+@dircategory Network applications
@direntry
-* Wget: (wget). The non-interactive network downloader.
+* Wget: (wget). Non-interactive network downloader.
@end direntry
@copying
@c man begin COPYRIGHT
Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
@iftex
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
@ignore
@c man begin AUTHOR
Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
-Currently maintained by Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>.
@c man end
@c man begin SEEALSO
This is @strong{not} the complete manual for GNU Wget.
Most of the features are fully configurable, either through command line
options, or via the initialization file @file{.wgetrc} (@pxref{Startup
File}). Wget allows you to define @dfn{global} startup files
-(@file{/usr/local/etc/wgetrc} by default) for site settings.
+(@file{/usr/local/etc/wgetrc} by default) for site settings. You can also
+specify the location of a startup file with the --config option.
+
@ignore
@c man begin FILES
For instance, if you specify @samp{http://foo/bar/a.html} for
@var{URL}, and Wget reads @samp{../baz/b.html} from the input file, it
would be resolved to @samp{http://foo/baz/b.html}.
+
+@cindex specify config
+@item --config=@var{FILE}
+Specify the location of a startup file you wish to use.
@end table
@node Download Options, Directory Options, Logging and Input File Options, Invoking
between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option. Wget will
use @dfn{linear backoff}, waiting 1 second after the first failure on a
given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second failure on that
-file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify. Therefore,
-a value of 10 will actually make Wget wait up to (1 + 2 + ... + 10) = 55
-seconds per file.
+file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify.
By default, Wget will assume a value of 10 seconds.
You can set the default encoding using the @code{remoteencoding}
command in @file{.wgetrc}. That setting may be overridden from the
command line.
+
+@cindex unlink
+@item --unlink
+
+Force Wget to unlink file instead of clobbering existing file. This
+option is useful for downloading to the directory with hardlinks.
+
@end table
@node Directory Options, HTTP Options, Download Options, Invoking
you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the local
@file{@var{X}.html} file corresponds to remote URL @samp{@var{X}} (since
it doesn't yet know that the URL produces output of type
-@samp{text/html} or @samp{application/xhtml+xml}. To prevent this
-re-downloading, you must use @samp{-k} and @samp{-K} so that the original
-version of the file will be saved as @file{@var{X}.orig} (@pxref{Recursive
-Retrieval Options}).
+@samp{text/html} or @samp{application/xhtml+xml}.
As of version 1.12, Wget will also ensure that any downloaded files of
type @samp{text/css} end in the suffix @samp{.css}, and the option was
Other than that, they work in exactly the same way. In particular,
they @emph{both} expect content of the form @code{key1=value1&key2=value2},
with percent-encoding for special characters; the only difference is
-that one expects its content as a command-line paramter and the other
+that one expects its content as a command-line parameter and the other
accepts its content from a file. In particular, @samp{--post-file} is
@emph{not} for transmitting files as form attachments: those must
appear as @code{key=value} data (with appropriate percent-coding) just
@code{Content-Disposition} headers to describe what the name of a
downloaded file should be.
+@cindex Content On Error
+@item --content-on-error
+
+If this is set to on, wget will not skip the content when the server responds
+with a http status code that indicates error.
+
+@cindex Trust server names
+@item --trust-server-names
+
+If this is set to on, on a redirect the last component of the
+redirection URL will be used as the local file name. By default it is
+used the last component in the original URL.
+
@cindex authentication
@item --auth-no-challenge
@item -r
@itemx --recursive
Turn on recursive retrieving. @xref{Recursive Download}, for more
-details.
+details. The default maximum depth is 5.
@item -l @var{depth}
@itemx --level=@var{depth}
Specify recursion maximum depth level @var{depth} (@pxref{Recursive
-Download}). The default maximum depth is 5.
+Download}).
@cindex proxy filling
@cindex delete after retrieval
of domains. Note that it does @emph{not} turn on @samp{-H}.
@item --exclude-domains @var{domain-list}
-Specify the domains that are @emph{not} to be followed.
+Specify the domains that are @emph{not} to be followed
(@pxref{Spanning Hosts}).
@cindex follow FTP links
@item -A @var{acclist}
@itemx --accept @var{acclist}
@itemx accept = @var{acclist}
+@itemx --accept-regex @var{urlregex}
+@itemx accept-regex = @var{urlregex}
The argument to @samp{--accept} option is a list of file suffixes or
patterns that Wget will download during recursive retrieval. A suffix
is the ending part of a file, and consists of ``normal'' letters,
Of course, any number of suffixes and patterns can be combined into a
comma-separated list, and given as an argument to @samp{-A}.
+The argument to @samp{--accept-regex} option is a regular expression which
+is matched against the complete URL.
+
@cindex reject wildcards
@cindex reject suffixes
@cindex wildcards, reject
@item -R @var{rejlist}
@itemx --reject @var{rejlist}
@itemx reject = @var{rejlist}
+@itemx --reject-regex @var{urlregex}
+@itemx reject-regex = @var{urlregex}
The @samp{--reject} option works the same way as @samp{--accept}, only
its logic is the reverse; Wget will download all files @emph{except} the
ones matching the suffixes (or patterns) in the list.
expansion by the shell.
@end table
+The argument to @samp{--accept-regex} option is a regular expression which
+is matched against the complete URL.
+
@noindent
The @samp{-A} and @samp{-R} options may be combined to achieve even
better fine-tuning of which files to retrieve. E.g. @samp{wget -A
Turn on recognition of the (non-standard) @samp{Content-Disposition}
HTTP header---if set to @samp{on}, the same as @samp{--content-disposition}.
+@item trust_server_names = on/off
+If set to on, use the last component of a redirection URL for the local
+file name.
+
@item continue = on/off
If set to on, force continuation of preexistent partially retrieved
files. See @samp{-c} before setting it.
Choose whether or not to print the @sc{http} and @sc{ftp} server
responses---the same as @samp{-S}.
+@item show_all_dns_entries = on/off
+When a DNS name is resolved, show all the IP addresses, not just the first
+three.
+
@item span_hosts = on/off
Same as @samp{-H}.
GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nik@v{s}i@'{c} @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org},
@end iftex
@ifnottex
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org},
+GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org}.
@end ifnottex
-and it is currently maintained by Micah Cowan @email{micah@@cowan.name}.
However, the development of Wget could never have gone as far as it has, were
it not for the help of many people, either with bug reports, feature proposals,
projects / wget / blobdiff