From a7958aa4c6f246369eacb34fc0022a9219d76aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Micah Cowan Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:40:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Further refinement of -O description; .hignore <- doc products --- .hgignore | 13 +++++++++++++ doc/wget.texi | 11 ++++++----- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore index 5243e1c7..d535de6a 100644 --- a/.hgignore +++ b/.hgignore @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ doc/wget.1 doc/wget.pod doc/wget.info doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion +doc/wget.aux +doc/wget.cp +doc/wget.cps +doc/wget.dvi +doc/wget.fn +doc/wget.ky +doc/wget.log +doc/wget.pg +doc/wget.toc +doc/wget.tp +doc/wget.vr +doc/wget_a4.ps +doc/wget_us.ps po/Makefile.in po/POTFILES po/*.gmo diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi index 0563dc72..6d3ae493 100644 --- a/doc/wget.texi +++ b/doc/wget.texi @@ -550,13 +550,14 @@ literally named @samp{-}.) Use of @samp{-O} is @emph{not} intended to mean simply ``use the name @var{file} instead of the one in the URL;'' rather, it is -analogous to shell redirection. +analogous to shell redirection: @samp{wget -O file http://foo} is intended to work like -@samp{wget -O - http://foo > file}. @file{file} will be truncated -immediately, and don't expect timestamping to work with it. +@samp{wget -O - http://foo > file}; @file{file} will be truncated +immediately, and @emph{all} downloaded content will be written there. -Note that a combination with @samp{-k} is only well-defined for -downloading a single document. +Note that a combination with @samp{-k} is only permitted when +downloading a single document, and combination with any of @samp{-r}, +@samp{-p}, or @samp{-N} is not allowed. @cindex clobbering, file @cindex downloading multiple times -- 2.39.2