2.3 Basic Startup Options

‘-V’

‘--version’

Display the version of Wget.

‘-h’

‘--help’

Print a help message describing all of Wget's command-line options.

‘-b’

‘--background’

Go to background immediately after startup. If no output file is specified via the ‘-o’, output is redirected to ‘wget-log’.

‘-e command’

‘--execute command’

Execute command as if it were a part of ‘.wgetrc’ (see section Startup File). A command thus invoked will be executed after the commands in ‘.wgetrc’, thus taking precedence over them. If you need to specify more than one wgetrc command, use multiple instances of ‘-e’.