Re: Tiny error in manpage

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Gert,

Thank you pointing this out. I've updated the documentation to reflect that 
Wget tries 20 times.


On Sat, Sep 28, 2024, at 21:40, Gert Robben wrote:
> With --tries you can specify how often wget should try a download.
> That is so in practice, as well as according to the manpage.
>
> In practice the default appears to be 20 tries, which means 19 retries.
> But the manpage says "The default is to retry 20 times".
>
> That same word mixup was encountered here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2013-05/msg00057.html
> The chosen solution was, to change "retries" to "tries" in the manpage.
> It appears the above quoted sentence was simply overlooked at the time.
>
> Here is my test result:
> $ wget -4 -o- --timeout=0.1 http://example.com:31337/ |sort|uniq -c
>       20
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:15--  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:16--  (try: 2)  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:18--  (try: 3)  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:21--  (try: 4)  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:25--  (try: 5)  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:30--  (try: 6)  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:36--  (try: 7)  http://example.com:31337/
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:43--  (try: 8)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:35:51--  (try: 9)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:36:01--  (try:10)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:36:11--  (try:11)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:36:21--  (try:12)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:36:31--  (try:13)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:36:41--  (try:14)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:36:51--  (try:15)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:37:01--  (try:16)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:37:11--  (try:17)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:37:21--  (try:18)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:37:31--  (try:19)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>        1 --2024-09-28 20:37:42--  (try:20)  http://example.com:31337/ 
>
>       20 Connecting to example.com (example.com)|93.184.215.14|:31337... 
> failed: Connection timed out.
>        1 Giving up. 
>
>        1 Resolving example.com (example.com)... 93.184.215.14 
>
>       19 Retrying.
>
> I use (the "wget_1.21.3-1+b2_amd64.deb" package from) Debian 12.
> But I see that manpage text is the same in the latest upstream.
>
> I'm not subscribed, but I don't mind being left out of further discussion.
> Thanks, Gert