Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

[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 William Tracy <address@hidden>:

> I meant to send this to the whole list, sorry.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "William Tracy" <address@hidden>
> Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?
> To: "Dagobert Michelsen" <address@hidden>
> 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's crawling
> features, but I don't see how you could use those features in this context,
> anyway.
>
> 2. If you are dead set on having a wcat command, you might have more luck
> getting this implemented by the package maintainer for your distribution
> than by the core wget team.
>
> William
> On Nov 19, 2014 12:41 PM, "Dagobert Michelsen" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > > Am 17.11.2014 um 20:49 schrieb Tim Rühsen <address@hidden>:
> > >
> > > 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/null -O -'
> > > $ wcat www.example.com
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > Put the alias into your ~/.bash_aliases or ~/.bashrc and that's it.
> > >
> > > What have I missed ;-) ?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> >   — Dago
> >
> > --
> > "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by
> wanting
> > to do something,
> > and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd
> > #896
> >
> >
>

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