wget exit codes

wget-exit-codes.txt

This is the list of exit codes for wget:

0       No problems occurred
1       Generic error code
2       Parse error — for instance, when parsing command-line options, the .wgetrc or .netrc…
3       File I/O error
4       Network failure
5       SSL verification failure
6       Username/password authentication failure
7       Protocol errors
8       Server issued an error response

-del- it was lua5.1 that did =exitcode<<8 for some unknown reason

Thanks for this. Really wish these exit codes made it into the wget man page.

@kfiresmith: I am not sure what wget that you have, but I am pretty sure if you use man wget (at least in my wget version 1.21.2 in Lubuntu 22), at the last part of man page there is a section called "EXIT STATUS" that describe what exit status means.