Follow-up Comment #16, bug #51181 (group wget): This 'feature' is so frustrating. It makes it difficult to use a wget as part of a program that happens to run in in the background.
#!/bin/bash -ex
rm -rf wget.log
wget -nv -nv https://savannah.gnu.org/frustrating.txt
then run it in the background
./annoying-wget >&log&
Even though --background was not supplied, stderr was redirected.
Magic behavior goes against the expect behavior of UNIX programs. Please
don't redirect to wget,log unless --background is specified.
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