wget: Exit Status
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1 2.13 Exit Status
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1 Wget may return one of several error codes if it encounters problems.
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1 0
1 No problems occurred.
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1 1
1 Generic error code.
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1 2
1 Parse error—for instance, when parsing command-line options, the
1 ‘.wgetrc’ or ‘.netrc’...
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1 3
1 File I/O error.
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1 4
1 Network failure.
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1 5
1 SSL verification failure.
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1 6
1 Username/password authentication failure.
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1 7
1 Protocol errors.
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1 8
1 Server issued an error response.
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1 With the exceptions of 0 and 1, the lower-numbered exit codes take
1 precedence over higher-numbered ones, when multiple types of errors are
1 encountered.
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1 In versions of Wget prior to 1.12, Wget’s exit status tended to be
1 unhelpful and inconsistent. Recursive downloads would virtually always
1 return 0 (success), regardless of any issues encountered, and
1 non-recursive fetches only returned the status corresponding to the most
1 recently-attempted download.
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