#28 wget to stdout not working properly

[Kevin P.]

I'm using the GetGnuWin32-0.6.3.exe package on Windows 7 64-bit. Everything seems to be fine, except that wget doesn't direct output to stdout correctly. If I do the following

wget -qO- http://heerebout.nl/ > foo

the output goes to the screen and "foo" ends up as a zero-byte file. It's not using stderr either; I tried 2>&1 and 3>&1. No dice.

More importantly, when doing something like the line below, the output is not changed. That means that scripts or batch files must save the output to a file in order to perform manipulations (as far as I can tell).

wget -qO- http://heerebout.nl/ | sed s/Hello//

Version:

GNU Wget 1.12.1-dev Mar 04 2010 (mainline-013c8e2f5997) built on Windows-MinGW.

[Jay Satiro]

Yes, you're right. I must have forgot.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2011-01/msg00016.html

I will update the supplemental wget that's available when using the GetGnuWin32 downloader, but not until the next wget release.

In the meantime please try one of the recent wget test builds.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/getgnuwin32/test%20builds/
I tested the one from 2013-05-19 and output goes to stdout not conout.

Thanks for your report. I'm surprised nobody else reported this in such a long time!