URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45789>
Summary: wget: -O does not work as described wrt timestamps
Project: GNU Wget
Submitted by: nok
Submitted on: Di 18 Aug 2015 10:44:34 CEST
Category: Documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
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Reproducibility: None
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Regression: None
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Patch Included: None
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Details:
Hello,
a forwarded and with 1.16.3 reproducible bug report:
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wget's manpage says:
> -O file
> --output-document=file
> ...
> Use of -O is not intended to mean simply "use the name file
instead of the one in the URL;" rather, it is
> analogous to shell redirection: wget -O file http://foo is
intended to work like wget -O - http://foo >
> file; file will be truncated immediately, and all downloaded
content will be written there.
>
> For this reason, -N (for timestamp-checking) is not supported in
combination with -O: since file is always
> newly created, it will always have a very new timestamp. A warning
will be issued if this combination is
> used.
but:
> $ date
> Do 13. Jun 17:12:06 CEST 2013
> $ wget http://www.debian.org
> ...
> $ wget -O test1 http://www.debian.org
> ...
> $ wget -O - http://www.debian.org > test2
> ...
> $ ls -l index.html test1 test2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 14649 Jun 11 21:58 index.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 14649 Jun 11 21:58 test1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 14649 Jun 13 17:12 test2
So the documentation is completely wrong here: '-O file' has the same
timestamp of the last change of the web
page as the naked wget and behaves clearly different from '-O - > file' here.
--8<--
https://bugs.debian.org/712155
Additional there is a comment on this from former maintainer Micah in this
report but I want to be sure and verifiy if you think if is or is not
something which might be corrected.
thx
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