Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-20 Thread Tim Rühsen
Am Donnerstag, 20. November 2014, 17:22:24 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen: > Hi, > > > Am 20.11.2014 um 08:55 schrieb Ángel González : > > > > On 20/11/14 07:34, Darshit Shah wrote: > >> And talking about legalities, I'm hoping you already have signed the > >> assignment papers because otherwise that

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-20 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, > Am 20.11.2014 um 08:55 schrieb Ángel González : > > On 20/11/14 07:34, Darshit Shah wrote: >> And talking about legalities, I'm hoping you already have signed the >> assignment papers because otherwise that's even more work, before we can add >> this to the source. :-) > Come on, that's n

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Ángel González
On 20/11/14 07:34, Darshit Shah wrote: And talking about legalities, I'm hoping you already have signed the assignment papers because otherwise that's even more work, before we can add this to the source. :-) Come on, that's not needed for trivial changes :) The given shell script is a perfect

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Pär Karlsson
+01:00 Pär Karlsson : >> >> Or, if there's any real need, may I suggest this simple patch for making >>> a >>> wrapper in contrib/wcat? :-9 >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> /Pär >>> >>> 2014-11-19 22:34 GMT+01:00 W

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Darshit Shah
11-19 22:34 GMT+01:00 William Tracy : I meant to send this to the whole list, sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: "William Tracy" Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] wcat? To: "Dagobert Michelsen" Cc: Two thoughts: 1. Curl already behaves t

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I think Alfred wants to have a behaviour similar to to gzip/gzcat where you could also have similar structure but nonetheless gzip ships gzcat, gzgrep etc. Exactly.

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Pär Karlsson
in contrib/wcat? :-9 > > Best regards, > > /Pär > > 2014-11-19 22:34 GMT+01:00 William Tracy : > >> I meant to send this to the whole list, sorry. >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: "William Tracy" >> Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:32 PM &

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Pär Karlsson
Tracy" > Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:32 PM > Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] wcat? > To: "Dagobert Michelsen" > Cc: > > Two thoughts: > > 1. Curl already behaves this way out of the box, so the path of least > resistance here would be to just use curl. Curl lacks wget&#

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread William Tracy
I meant to send this to the whole list, sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: "William Tracy" Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] wcat? To: "Dagobert Michelsen" Cc: Two thoughts: 1. Curl already behaves this way out of the box, so the path of l

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Tim, > Am 17.11.2014 um 20:49 schrieb Tim Rühsen : > > Am Montag, 17. November 2014, 09:05:52 schrieb Alfred M. Szmidt: >> It would be nice if wget also installed a wcat command which would >> default to something like, >> >> wget -o /dev/null -O - "$@" >> >> Would it be possible to add som

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-19 Thread Tony Lewis
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > wget -o /dev/null -O - "$@" By the way, you can accomplish the same thing by: wget -q -O - "$@"

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The point is to have wcat as part of wget, and not require every user of wget to modify their init files. Aliases also do not work as part of shell scripts.

Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-17 Thread Tim Rühsen
Am Montag, 17. November 2014, 09:05:52 schrieb Alfred M. Szmidt: > It would be nice if wget also installed a wcat command which would > default to something like, > > wget -o /dev/null -O - "$@" > > Would it be possible to add something like that? Something like $ alias wcat='wget -o /dev/nul

[Bug-wget] wcat?

2014-11-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
It would be nice if wget also installed a wcat command which would default to something like, wget -o /dev/null -O - "$@" Would it be possible to add something like that?