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Joel
Joel

Reputation: 1659

WGET without the log file

Every time I use wget http://www.domain.com a Log file is being saved automatically on my server. is there anyway to run this command without logging?

Thanks,

Joel

Upvotes: 18

Views: 37929

Answers (4)

adrianTNT
adrianTNT

Reputation: 4098

Not sure how it is on Windows, but on Linux, the lowercase -o specifies log output file and uppercase -O is output / download file, I use uppercase -q -O /dev/null to prevent output. Wget manual.

Upvotes: 0

MackieeE
MackieeE

Reputation: 11872

I personally found that @Paul's answer was still adding to a Log file, regardless of the Command line output of -q

Added -O to /dev/null ontop of the -o output file argument.

wget [url] -q -o /dev/null -O &> /dev/null

Upvotes: 2

Alberto Zaccagni
Alberto Zaccagni

Reputation: 31580

This will print the site contents to the standard output, is this what you mean when you say that you don't want logging to a file?

wget -O - http://www.domain.com/

Upvotes: 6

Paul Rubel
Paul Rubel

Reputation: 27242

You could try -o and -q

-o logfile
   --output-file=logfile
       Log all messages to logfile.  The messages are  
       normally reported to standard error.
-q
 --quiet
     Turn off Wget's output.

So you'd have:

wget ... -q -o /dev/null ...

Upvotes: 37

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