cannot get wget output to file

[conradin]

Hi All I am using wget in spider mode to figure out what sites exist with certain names.


wget --spider --tries=1 www.4chan.org >> log

as an example. That will run in the terminal and give screen output, but will not put anything in the log file.
Ive tried piping to tee and that was a fail too.
Can someone help me get the wget --spider output to go to a file?
I am in 12.04

[codemaniac]

Hi All I am using wget in spider mode to figure out what sites exist with certain names.


wget --spider --tries=1 www.4chan.org >> log

as an example. That will run in the terminal and give screen output, but will not put anything in the log file.
Ive tried piping to tee and that was a fail too.
Can someone help me get the wget --spider output to go to a file?
I am in 12.04

specify a logfile with -o switch .


wget --spider --tries=1 www.4chan.org -o log.txt

[sisco311]

or with -a to append to the logfile

The messages are normally reported to standard error. ;)

[trent.josephsen]

never mind, I swapped the meanings of -o and -O

[conradin]

Thank you Every one! I used wget --spider --tries=1 www.4chan.org -a load.log and got file out put. hurray!