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 83894258583c0b06d92754fd146eb2ad9c5d0b04..d5eaf4e5f460b968c59a008ba3baf9f04678697f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -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