I don't want to use the stuff it downloads, I just want to get that text when it says 404 to a file. $ wget -r -p -U Firefox "http://www.somedomain.com/" 2>&1 | grep 404 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-11-14 12:14:26 ERROR 404: Not Found. not the -O ... --- On Sat, 11/14/09, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: how to find out dead links > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:18 PM > On 14Nov2009 00:54, Eugeneapolinary > Ju <eugeneapolinary81@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > | wget -r -p -U Firefox "http://www.somesite.com/" 2>&1 | > grep 404 > 404.txt > | > | why come 404.txt is 0 Byte? how to put the STDOUT to a > file with wget? > > Perhaps you should read "man wget". It says: > > -O file > --output-document=file > The documents > will not be written to the appropriate files, but > all will be > concatenated together and written to file. If - is > used as file, > documents will be printed to standard output, > disabling > link conversion. (Use ./- to print to a file > literally > named -.) > > Cheers, > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> > DoD#743 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines