Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 0f8f266330e3be605635aeeb65325ecd4ee050fe..d5eaf4e5f460b968c59a008ba3baf9f04678697f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ data.
 
 @c man begin COPYRIGHT
 Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 @iftex
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
@@ -579,7 +579,8 @@ some cases where this behavior can actually have some use.
 Note that a combination with @samp{-k} is only permitted when
 downloading a single document, as in that case it will just convert
 all relative URIs to external ones; @samp{-k} makes no sense for
-multiple URIs when they're all being downloaded to a single file.
+multiple URIs when they're all being downloaded to a single file;
+@samp{-k} can be used only when the output is a regular file.
 
 @cindex clobbering, file
 @cindex downloading multiple times