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Re: Wget: Adding a prefix to downloaded files?


From: Tim Rühsen
Subject: Re: Wget: Adding a prefix to downloaded files?
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:18:05 +0100
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On 12/17/19 5:08 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> 
>> wget has no parallel processing. Wget2 has.
> 
> This phrasing could use some clarity.
> 
> Does this mean that Wget2 is not Wget? Is 'Wget2' the name of a separate
> tool/project?
> 
> Or is Wget2 actually Wget version 2? Because if it is, then Wget has
> parallel processing, in version two...
> 
> I think it would help to have this clarified.

Good point.

Wget2 is Wget version 2 *and* an own tool. So both are installable in
parallel. Wget2 is a drop-in replacement and will be the successor of
Wget at some time. Both tools belong to the GNU Wget project.

Regards, Tim

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