On Dienstag, 8. November 2016 15:26:14 CET Dale R. Worley wrote:
> I've been getting a script working, and as part of it, it appears that
> -o does not work correctly.  Specifically -o is supposed to send all
> "messages" to a specified log file rather than stderr.  But what I see
> is that no messages are sent to the log file.
> 
> The command in question is:
> 
> wget --no-verbose \
>     -o ~/temp/log-file \
>     --mirror --trust-server-names --convert-links --page-requisites \
>     --include-directories=/assignments \
>     --limit-rate=20k \
>     http://www.iana.org/assignments/index.html
> 
> With the (now obsolete) wget distributed with my OS, GNU Wget 1.16.1, -o
> behaves as documented.  With wget from commit 00ae9b4 (which I think is
> the latest), which reports itself as GNU Wget 1.18.88-00ae-dirty, -o
> seems to have no effect.
> 
> There are any number of mistakes I could have made in this test, but
> since the symptom is so simple, I figured I'd ask if anyone else has
> noticed whether -o works or does not in the latest commits.

Hi Dale, you are right.

Looks like commit dd5c549f6af8e1143e1a6ef66725eea4bcd9ad50 broke it.

Sadly, the test suite doesn't catch it.

@Piotr Could you take a look ?

Regards, Tim

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