On Monday 25 January 2021 17:38:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 25 January 2021 16:48:52 Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 25/01/2021 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 25 January 2021 15:55:31 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:47:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >>>> 1) You have a shell function or alias that overrides the wget > > >>>> command. Diagnose this by running "type wget". > > >>> > > >>> Interesting: > > >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ type wget > > >>> wget is hashed (/usr/bin/wget) > > >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ > > >>> > > >>> What the heck does that mean? > > >> > > >> It means you don't have a shell alias or function named wget. It > > >> also means you've run wget at least once previously in the > > >> current interactive shell, so that its location in the PATH list > > >> is cached. > > >> > > >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ id > > >>> uid=1000(gene) gid=1000(gene) > > >>> groups=1000(gene),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk),7 > > >>> (lp),8(mail),12(man),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),2 > > >>>9 > > >>> (audio),33(www-data),44(video),46(plugdev),50(staff),100(users), > > >>>10 2 > > >>> (systemd-timesync),116(lpadmin),118(pulse),119(pulse-access),120 > > >>> (scanner),122(colord),123(saned),125(nut) > > >>> > > >>> gene@coyote:~/src/build$ ls -ld > > >>> drwxr-xr-x 19 gene gene 4096 Jan 25 14:05 . > > >> > > >> OK. > > >> > > >>>> 3) You pasted the command from a source that has non-breaking > > >>>> spaces or other non-ASCII garbage polluting the arguments. > > >>> > > >>> How would that be diagnosed? > > >> > > >> By reading the error message extremely carefully. Or possibly by > > >> hex-dumping the command, extremely carefully. > > >> > > >>> df -h grep sda > > >>> /dev/sda5 1.8T 291G 1.4T 18% / > > >>> /dev/sda1 922M 183M 677M 22% /boot > > >>> /dev/sda3 46G 4.7G 39G 11% /var > > >> > > >> This command got mangled. I am guessing you ran "df -h | grep > > >> sda", and this all looks fine, but it doesn't tell us anything > > >> about ~gene. > > >> > > >>>> 5) Quotas. > > >>> > > >>> Diagnostic for that? > > >> > > >> No idea. You'd probably remember if you had set up user quotas, > > >> though. > > >> > > >> Why don't you just show us the wget command and its error message > > >> so we can stop guessing? > > > > > > posted at least once today: > > > gene@coyote:~/src/build$ cd .. && wget -O opencv.zip > > > https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/master.zip Cannot specify > > > both -k or --convert-file-only and -O if multiple URLs are given, > > > or in combination with -p or -r. See the manual for details. > > > > > > Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... > > > > > > But the man page says it's legal. > > > > Interesting. wget is complaining about a -k option which isn't > > visible here (and hasn't been mentioned in this thread so far). Do > > you have either /etc/wgetrc or ~/.wgetrc which mentions any of those > > prohibited switches? > > > > > Thanks Greg. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > however I also have in my home dir, a .wgetrc, containing: > > no_parent = on > follow_ftp = on > recursive = on > reclevel = 20 PS: > convert_links = on <-I took this line out and its working. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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