Follow-up Comment #1, bug #54825 (project wget): I kind of agree here. Over time Wget has had the --no-clobber option do many things and trying to preserve backwards compatibility has only complicated everything. It would be ideal to have a --force option which causes Wget to overwrite the file. You can currently do that by explicitly specifying the filename using -O.
However, all new features are currently being added only to Wget2. Which is the next version of Wget, with (almost) complete command-line parity. However, we are indeed making some backwards incompatible modification which allow making changes as you've proposed a lot easier. Please take a look at the source available here: https://www.gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git. It is also available on Savannah and has been packaged for Debian already. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54825> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/