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 Option Syntax
 =============
 
    Since Wget uses GNU getopts to process its arguments, every option
 has a short form and a long form.  Long options are more convenient to
 remember, but take time to type.  You may freely mix different option
 styles, or specify options after the command-line arguments.  Thus you
 may write:
 
      wget -r --tries=10 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/ -o log
 
    The space between the option accepting an argument and the argument
 may be omitted.  Instead `-o log' you can write `-olog'.
 
    You may put several options that do not require arguments together,
 like:
 
      wget -drc URL
 
    This is a complete equivalent of:
 
      wget -d -r -c URL
 
    Since the options can be specified after the arguments, you may
 terminate them with `--'.  So the following will try to download URL
 `-x', reporting failure to `log':
 
      wget -o log -- -x
 
    The options that accept comma-separated lists all respect the
 convention that specifying an empty list clears its value.  This can be
 useful to clear the `.wgetrc' settings.  For instance, if your `.wgetrc'
 sets `exclude_directories' to `/cgi-bin', the following example will
 first reset it, and then set it to exclude `/~nobody' and `/~somebody'.
 You can also clear the lists in `.wgetrc' ( Wgetrc Syntax).
 
      wget -X '' -X /~nobody,/~somebody
 

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