Since Wget uses GNU getopts to process its arguments, every option has a short form and a long form. Long options are more convenient to remember, but take time to type. You may freely mix different option styles, or specify options after the command-line arguments. Thus you may write:
wget -r --tries=10 http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -o log
The space between the option accepting an argument and the argument may be omitted. Instead `-o log' you can write `-olog'.
You may put several options that do not require arguments together, like:
wget -drc URL
This is a complete equivalent of:
wget -d -r -c URL
Since the options can be specified after the arguments, you may terminate them with `--'. So the following will try to download URL `-x', reporting failure to `log':
wget -o log -- -x
The options that accept comma-separated lists all respect the convention
that specifying an empty list clears its value. This can be useful to
clear the `.wgetrc' settings. For instance, if your `.wgetrc'
sets exclude_directories to `/cgi-bin', the following
example will first reset it, and then set it to exclude `/~nobody'
and `/~somebody'. You can also clear the lists in `.wgetrc'
(See section Wgetrc Syntax).
wget -X '' -X /~nobody,/~somebody
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