Is it possible to do a wget dry-run?

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Published on 2010-04-05T19:29:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 19:33 UTC
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I know you can download webpages recursively using wget, but is it possible to do a dry-run? So that you could sort of do a test-run to see how much would be downloaded if you actually did it? Thinking about pages that have a lot of links to media files like for example images, audio or movie files.

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