* Claudio Bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>, 2002-10-22 08:50 -0400:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 01:20, Andre Berger wrote:
> > * Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>, 2002-10-21 09:51 -0400:
> > > Andre Berger wrote:
> > > >* Rob Weir <rweir@softhome.net>, 2002-10-21 09:31 -0400:
> > > >>On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:07:50AM -0400, Andre Berger wrote:
> > > >>>Is it possible to see wget's messages on the console, and at the same
> > > >>>time log them with "-a"? I haven't been able to figure that one out.
> > [...]
> > > $ wget -c $MYURL -a | tail logfile
> >
> > That works. Can I make this a bash alias somehow? Like
> >
> > alias wget='wget -c $???? -a $HOME/.wget.log | tail $HOME/.wget.log'
> >
> > where I would have to figure out $????
>
> You can't use aliases like that because there's no variable expansion
> done on them. But you can use functions. For example:
>
> wget() {
> command wget -c "$@" -a "${HOME}/.wget.log" | tail "${HOME}/.wget.log"
> }
That works great, thanks!
-Andre
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