Re: [Bug-wget] wget doc sugestion for --spider option

[Micah Cowan]

Hi Patrick. I don't maintain (or do development) on wget currently. I'm
copying to the Wget mailing list. Thanks!
-mjc

On 08/30/2012 09:21 AM, Patrick Castet wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> <about:
>     man wget
>     wget --help
> 
>     --spider option
> 
> 
> 
> <just this humble suggestion:
> 
> 
> present man:
>        --spider
>            When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web
> spider, which means that it
>            will not download the pages, just check that they are there. 
> For example, you can use ...
> 
> 
> 
> <suggestion:
> 
>        --spider
>            When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web
> spider, which means that it
>            ***WILL*** download the pages,
>            process attached tasks, (as for recursive link, sublink,
> images, ...)
>            and remove the downloaded pages,
> 
> just check that they are there.  For example, you can use ...
> 
> 
> 
> <finale:
> 
> all the best,
> 
> many thanks for the contribution to the gnu project
> 
> ;-)
> 
> pc