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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: stderr and stdout
From:       Trey <tmorita () proxicom ! com>
Date:       1998-02-12 18:28:58
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On 12 Feb 1998, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> > Wget does not produce its result, as a stream output, it stores
> > files instead, as tar, so stdout is "free" for other purposes - for
> > log, for example.
> 
> Yes, but Wget can be made to stream-output files, and many people like 
> to use it for this purpose.

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but what would help me is
if wget had an option to d/l and save the files as it does now, and then
print file:// URLs of the new downloads to its stdout. (log to stderr)

Trey

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