how to find out dead links

Eugeneapolinary Ju eugeneapolinary81 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 14 11:16:27 UTC 2009


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 at zip.com.au> wrote:

> From: Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
> Subject: Re: how to find out dead links
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:18 PM
> On 14Nov2009 00:54, Eugeneapolinary
> Ju <eugeneapolinary81 at yahoo.com>
> 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 at zip.com.au>
> DoD#743
> 
> -- 
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
> 


      




More information about the fedora-list mailing list