Downgrade -r, -p with -O to a warning rather than an error; elaborate about bad combinations with -O.

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Micah Cowan
2008-04-27 02:15:31 -07:00
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2008-04-27 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* wget.texi (Download Options) <-O>: Elaborate on why certain
options make poor combinations with -O.
2008-04-22 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* sample.wgetrc: Added prefer_family example. Resolves bug

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@@ -551,9 +551,23 @@ analogous to shell redirection:
@samp{wget -O - http://foo > file}; @file{file} will be truncated
immediately, and @emph{all} downloaded content will be written there.
For this reason, @samp{-N} (for timestamp-checking) is not supported
in combination with @samp{-O}: since @var{file} is always newly
created, it will always have a very new timestamp. Contrary to some
users' expectations, the combination has never worked, and as of
version 1.11, it results in an error.
Similarly, using @samp{-r} or @samp{-p} with @samp{-O} may not work as
you expect: Wget won't just download the first file to @var{file} and
then download the rest to their normal names: @emph{all} downloaded
content will be placed in @var{file}. This was disabled in version
1.11, but has been reinstated (with a warning) in 1.11.2, as there are
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, and combination with any of @samp{-r},
@samp{-p}, or @samp{-N} is not allowed.
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.
@cindex clobbering, file
@cindex downloading multiple times