== Steps to reproduce ==
\n`wget -q https:\/\/www.google.com\/ &`<\/p>\n
== What happens ==
\nwget says it’s ”Redirecting output to ’wget-log'” and creates an empty wget-log file in the current directory.<\/p>\n
== What I expect to happen ==
\nNo wget-log file to be created.<\/p>\n
== Details ==
\nWget has a -b (–background) option, for which the man page says: ”If no output file is specified via the -o, output is redirected to wget-log.” There’s also the -q (–quiet) option, for which the man page says: ”Turn off Wget’s output.”<\/p>\n
When both are given, wget goes to background, and no wget-log gets created, as expected.<\/p>\n
When only -b is given, wget goes to background, and creates wget-log, also as expected.<\/p>\n
When only -q is given, wget runs in the foreground, and no wget-log is created, still as expected.<\/p>\n
When only -q is given, but & is added to the end of the command line, wget goes to background, but also creates wget-log, which I find unexpected (and inconsistent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
`wget -q $URL &` says it’s ”Redirecting output to ’wget-log'” and creates an empty wget-log file in the current directory. I find this unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8860],"tags":[14080],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vianhallintajarjestelmat","tag-wget","sijainti-launchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5657,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}