Re: problem with wget -O
On 2021-01-26 10:40:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2021-01-25 17:42:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2021 17:04:23 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 04:07:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > 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]...
> [...]
> > > Do you have a ~/.wgetrc file? If so, what's in it? If not, what's in
> > > your /etc/wgetrc file (other than comments and blank lines)?
> > gene@coyote:~$ cat .wgetrc
> > no_parent = on
> > follow_ftp = on
> > recursive = on
> > reclevel = 20
> > convert_links = on
>
> Note that convert_links is -k and you have "recursive = on", which
> means multiple URLs. Then the use of -O on the command line explains
> the error.
Actually the error message explicitly mentions -r, which is implied
by "recursive = on". So, as a summary, you simultaneously have the
equivalent of -k, -O and -r.
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