On 2002-06-29 21:09 -0400, Dang P. Tran wrote: > I use the -i option to download files from an url list. The > server I use have a password that change often. When I have a > large list if the password change while I'm downloading and give > 401 error, I want wget stop to prevent hammering the site with > bad password.
A workaround : $ echo '#!/bin/sh' >wrapper $ echo 'wget "$@" || kill $PPID' >>wrapper $ chmod +x wrapper $ xargs -n10 ./wrapper <urllist If for whatever reason Wget exits with a non-zero status, xargs is killed. Thus the server will be hit at most 9 too many times. -- André Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
