Hi there,
There's a minor cosmetic bug in wget 1.x where it claims "Success" when it in
fact entirely failed to write to the local
disk, e.g. because of missing permissions/ write access to the current directory. The
return code is "3" however, so it's
basically only the message that it prints on screen that is funny in a
suspicious way:
### Prepare situation…
$ mkdir foobar
$ chmod -w foobar # remove write access
$ cd foobar
### Note: the "Permission denied" and "Cannot write to" messages, but we
### get a "(Success)" anyway:
$ wget https://www.christianrosentreter.com/
--2023-10-21 17:05:35-- https://www.christianrosentreter.com/
Resolving www.christianrosentreter.com (www.christianrosentreter.com)...
85.13.142.16
Connecting to www.christianrosentreter.com
(www.christianrosentreter.com)|85.13.142.16|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
index.html: Permission denied
Cannot write to 'index.html' (Success).
### The return code seems to be reasonable though:
$ echo $?
3
### Version tested:
$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.21.4 built on darwin14.5.0.
+cares +digest -gpgme +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +metalink -nls
+ntlm +opie +psl +ssl/openssl
…cut…