Re: [Bug-wget] How to disable reading or settings in .wgetrc?

[Tim Rühsen]

On Freitag, 2. Juni 2017 20:32:01 CEST Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 3. Tell wget not to read a config file at all with --no-config.
> 
> Thanks! Didn't know that!
> 
> But it seems this is specific to --config only and not for other
> similar options.

Yes, it is.

> For example,
> I have `logfile = wget.log` in my .wgetrc along with other commands.
> And now I want to override this specific .wgetrc configuration and
> would like wget to show log on terminal (default behavior). How do I
> do that?

There is no --logfile but --output-file, still you have to use 'logfile' in the 
config file (sigh). One of those historical stupidities...

> 1. There is no `--no-output-file` to achieve this.
> 
> 2. --output-file="" makes wget exit without downloading the document
> and spitting out an error about there being no such file or directory.

"-" is normally stdout.
So you could say --output-file=-, I guess.


> Of course, as you suggested I can create an another rc file for this
> specific use case containing all of .wgetrc but this specific command.
> But then there as other similar options as well and so this doesn't
> look scalable.
> 
> May be we should accommodate 1. or 2. or may be both?

For Wget2 we have -no-  also for strings/filenames.
So the problem is solved for me.
Instead of wasting time with Wget1.x we should use that time to make Wget2 
release ready (IMO).

With Best Regards, Tim

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