Re: problem with wget -O
On Monday 25 January 2021 16:48:52 Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 25/01/2021 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2021 15:55:31 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:47:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>> 1) You have a shell function or alias that overrides the wget
> >>>> command. Diagnose this by running "type wget".
> >>>
> >>> Interesting:
> >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ type wget
> >>> wget is hashed (/usr/bin/wget)
> >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$
> >>>
> >>> What the heck does that mean?
> >>
> >> It means you don't have a shell alias or function named wget. It
> >> also means you've run wget at least once previously in the current
> >> interactive shell, so that its location in the PATH list is cached.
> >>
> >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ id
> >>> uid=1000(gene) gid=1000(gene)
> >>> groups=1000(gene),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk),7
> >>> (lp),8(mail),12(man),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29
> >>> (audio),33(www-data),44(video),46(plugdev),50(staff),100(users),10
> >>>2 (systemd-timesync),116(lpadmin),118(pulse),119(pulse-access),120
> >>> (scanner),122(colord),123(saned),125(nut)
> >>>
> >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ ls -ld
> >>> drwxr-xr-x 19 gene gene 4096 Jan 25 14:05 .
> >>
> >> OK.
> >>
> >>>> 3) You pasted the command from a source that has non-breaking
> >>>> spaces or other non-ASCII garbage polluting the arguments.
> >>>
> >>> How would that be diagnosed?
> >>
> >> By reading the error message extremely carefully. Or possibly by
> >> hex-dumping the command, extremely carefully.
> >>
> >>> df -h grep sda
> >>> /dev/sda5 1.8T 291G 1.4T 18% /
> >>> /dev/sda1 922M 183M 677M 22% /boot
> >>> /dev/sda3 46G 4.7G 39G 11% /var
> >>
> >> This command got mangled. I am guessing you ran "df -h | grep
> >> sda", and this all looks fine, but it doesn't tell us anything
> >> about ~gene.
> >>
> >>>> 5) Quotas.
> >>>
> >>> Diagnostic for that?
> >>
> >> No idea. You'd probably remember if you had set up user quotas,
> >> though.
> >>
> >> Why don't you just show us the wget command and its error message
> >> so we can stop guessing?
> >
> > posted at least once today:
> > gene@coyote:~/src/build$ cd .. && wget -O opencv.zip
> > https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/master.zip Cannot specify
> > both -k or --convert-file-only and -O if multiple URLs are given, or
> > in combination with -p or -r. See the manual for details.
> >
> > Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
> >
> > But the man page says it's legal.
>
> Interesting. wget is complaining about a -k option which isn't visible
> here (and hasn't been mentioned in this thread so far). Do you have
> either /etc/wgetrc or ~/.wgetrc which mentions any of those prohibited
> switches?
>
> > Thanks Greg.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
however I also have in my home dir, a .wgetrc, containing:
no_parent = on
follow_ftp = on
recursive = on
reclevel = 20
convert_links = on
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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