Re: [Bug-wget] wcat?

[William Tracy]

I meant to send this to the whole list, sorry.
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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
>
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