about wget in ubuntu/debian??

Question

I want to print to a file.txt the output of running the wget utility.
Ex. 
if I write in the terminal :
myterminal$> ls >>output.txt
it will generate a file with the information of the directory.

I want to do something like this:

myterminal$>wget http://some.com/some.txt >> output.txt

but it doesn't show anything, I need to parse that output, very bad! Does someone know how to do it?

Sanjay · Accepted Answer

Well that is because wget is supposed to be non-interactive. What wget does is, downloads the file from whatever url your specify and saves it to the disk. So for example if you are downloading index.html, it will save the file as index.html. If you want to save it with a different name, which is what you want it seems, you can use -O (hyphen capital o) flag and use - as default name. So you would do something like this ;

wget http://some.com/some.txt -O - >> output.txt

See man wget.

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