--version prevents normal operation

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The successor of GNU Wget. Contributions preferred at https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2. But accepted here as well 😍

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Closed coinhubs closed 4 years ago

coinhubs commented 4 years ago

Hello could --version also allow normal operation please? Currently it exits, I had expected to be able to see the version as it was downloading

$ wget2 --version http://www.google.de GNU Wget2 1.99.1 - multithreaded metalink/file/website downloader

+digest +https +ssl/gnutls +ipv6 +iri +large-file +nls -ntlm -opie +psl +iconv +idn2 +zlib +lzma +brotlidec +bzip2 +http2 +gpgme

rockdaboot commented 4 years ago

We won't "fix" this. The current behavior is the same as with most *nix tools out there. E.g. try

touch x
rm --version x

You'll see the version output and x won't be removed.