Fair enough. Thank all for the timely replies.
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Weyco IT
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On 10/18/2014 10:44 AM, Yousong Zhou wrote:
> Hi, Bryan
>
> Am 18.10.2014 21:43 schrieb "Bryan Baas" <mailto:bb...@weycogroup.com>>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering about the command output of wget. I used a Java Runtime
>> exec and, although the wget process ended with a 0 completion code, the
>> results appeared in the error stream and not the output stream.
>>
>> As a further test, I executed the same command at the command line and
>> redirected output to a file using the > operator. Upon completion the
>> file was empty, but the results scrolled down the screen. This had me
>> thinking that the wget command itself is directing its regular output to
>> sderr instead of stdout.
>
> Yes, that is the expected. It is possible to set the output file to
> stdout with "-O -" in which case you do not want to see output of wget
> itself and the file content mangled together.
>
>>
>> The results of the wget command, from what I could tell, weren't error
>> conditions but regular output from a successful execution.
>>
>
> I think it is a convention that debug, informational, error, verbose
> output of unix programs be written to stderr. However, the choice of
> redirecting stderr to whatever file descriptor users prefer is always
> available.
>
> regards.
>
> yousong
>
>> Your feedback would be appreciated.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bryan Baas
>> Weyco IT
>> x1808
>> 414 241 0499 (cell)
>>
>
