Logging and Input File Options
Log messages to
--output-file=logfile
Log all messages to logfile. The messages are nor-
mally reported to standard error.
Append messages to
--append-output=logfile
Append to logfile. This is the same as -o, only it
appends to logfile instead of overwriting the old log
file. If logfile does not exist, a new file is cre-
ated.
Print debug information
--debug
Turn on debug output, meaning various information
important to the developers of Wget if it does not
work properly. Your system administrator may have
chosen to compile Wget without debug support, in which
case -d will not work. Please note that compiling
with debug support is always safe---Wget compiled with
the debug support will not print any debug info unless
requested with -d.
Turn off output
--quiet
Turn off Wget's output.
-v
Turn on verbose output
--verbose
Turn on verbose output, with all the available data.
The default output is verbose.
--non-verbose
Non-verbose output---turn off verbose without being
completely quiet (use -q for that), which means that
error messages and basic information still get
printed.
Download URL's from
--input-file=file
Read URLs from file, in which case no URLs need to be
on the command line. If there are URLs both on the
command line and in an input file, those on the com-
mand lines will be the first ones to be retrieved.
The file need not be an HTML document (but no harm if
it is)---it is enough if the URLs are just listed
sequentially.
However, if you specify --force-html, the document
will be regarded as html. In that case you may have
problems with relative links, which you can solve
either by adding `' to the documents
or by specifying --base=url on the command line.
Treat input file as HTML
--force-html
When input is read from a file, force it to be treated
as an HTML file. This enables you to retrieve rela-
tive links from existing HTML files on your local
disk, by adding `' to HTML, or using
the --base command-line option.
Prepend URL links with:
--base=URL
When used in conjunction with -F, prepends URL to rel-
ative links in the file specified by -i.