wget.info: Basic Startup Options

Invoking

Logging and Input File Options

Option Syntax

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2.3 Basic Startup Options
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‘-V’
‘--version’
     Display the version of Wget.

‘-h’
‘--help’
     Print a help message describing all of Wget’s command-line options.

‘-b’
‘--background’
     Go to background immediately after startup.  If no output file is
     specified via the ‘-o’, output is redirected to ‘wget-log’.

‘-e COMMAND’
‘--execute COMMAND’
     Execute COMMAND as if it were a part of ‘.wgetrc’ (Note: Startup
     File).  A command thus invoked will be executed _after_ the
     commands in ‘.wgetrc’, thus taking precedence over them.  If you
     need to specify more than one wgetrc command, use multiple
     instances of ‘-e’.