Hi, I have seen a strange bug:
echo "test" > test wget -O - http://www.w3c.org >> test Actually, wget should append to "test", right? Well, it does in version 1.9, but it does not do that in 1.8 (tested with bash 2.x and 3.0). In version 1.8 it overwrites (!) the file. OK, I see that this is solved with the current version, but I would like to know how wget <1.9 actually was able to overwrite the file? How did it fool the shell? This workaround works fine with any version: wget -O - http://www.w3c.org | cat >> test It seems that wget 1.8 was sending something that causes overwriting the file and that was filtered by cat. Any idea of any unknown mystic power wget used to have? :-) Greetings, Claus