Re: [Bug-wget] [bug #44966] wget -nv is too verbose, -q too quiet

[Pär Karlsson]

Also, at least on Unix like systems, there is the standard redirection
operators in the shell. If you don't want to see errors, just redirect
stderr to null, as in wget [...] 2>/dev/null


2015-04-30 8:59 GMT+02:00 Darshit Shah <address@hidden>:

> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44966 (project wget):
>
> Not really. Sometimes I expect Wget to fail and do not want it's output
> messing my script up. In other cases, I know how to handle Wget's failures
> using exit codes and do not want the output to make things ugly.
>
> I usually run wget with -q --show-progress and would hate for errors to
> clutter up the otherwise perfect screen.
>
> Also, the -q switch should really be "quiet". We do not want to print
> *anything* at all if it can be avoided to the screen.
>
> The -nv switch is think is already that sweet spot between verbose and
> quiet.
> It will print only error messages and a success message for each file it
> downloads.
>
> In my opinion, we should not change / add any more verbosity options.
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