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

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bayuah commented Sep 15, 2023

@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.

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