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When running Wget with -N, with or without -r or -p, the decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy of a file depends on the local and remote timestamp and size of the file. -nc may not be specified at the same time as -N.
Thus, your point 3 is invalid. However, I will agree that if you have a symlinked file, then Wget should not clobber it even with -r unless the file on the server has changed. In which case you need to use --timestamping to prevent that. I will look into the symlink issue and see what I can find there.
if a file is present on the my system, but is a sym-linked file, the file will get over-written I manually downloaded a iso image last night,, but I want the rest of that directory tree which contains small files less than 1Mb, so I wait for wget to build the tree structure and ^C it as soon as it hits that file (its the 1st one after 'index.html' - I delete that as well), rm the new partial download, and sym-link the iso file Then I restart wget with the same command line, and zap there goes the file contents. 1) without --no-clobber it should always create .1/.2/etc names, it does not (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60244) 2) with --no-clobber it should never create .1/.2/etc names (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34413) 3) with --no-clobber it especially should not over-write anything, at all, ever
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