Re: -q option not totally quiet

[Darshit Shah]

Hi,

You're correct. This message should not have been printed. I've corrected the 
usage in the master branch. 
This fix will be a part of the next Wget release. Until then you could use the 
wget-git package from the AUR 
to fix this issue locally. 

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024, at 15:54, Ross Boulet wrote:
> I recently updated my Arch Linux system and part of the update was wget 
> 1.25 (previous was 1.24). I have a cronjob that uses wget to retrieve a 
> web page with a -q option. As an example, I'll use gnu.org.
>
> Old behavior:
>
> $ wget -q www.gnu.org
>
> <no output>
>
> New behavior:
>
> $ wget -q www,gnu.org
>
> Prepended http:// to www,gnu.org <written to stderr>
>
> The -q option will suppress messages even if the URL is invalid. It 
> seems like an informational message of "Prepending http:// ..." should 
> also be suppressed by -q
>
> The -o option does not suppress the message either.
>
> --
> Ross
> -