Make wget convert HTML links to relative after download if -k wasn't specified

The -k option (or --convert-link) will convert links in your web pages to relative after the download finishes, such as the man page says:

After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to make them suitable for local viewing. This affects not only the visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to external content, such as embedded images, links to style sheets, hyperlinks to non-HTML content, etc.

So, if I didn't specify -k, can I run wget again after the download and fix that, and if so, what would be the proper command? My guess is wget -c [previous options used] [url] and run it in the same working directory as the file were downloaded to.

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Yes, you can make wget do it. I'd say use wget -nc -k [previous options] [previous url]. -nc is no-clobber. From the man page:

When −nc is specified, this behavior is suppressed, and Wget will refuse to download newer copies of file.

And the -k option does the link converting. So, wget starts digging in the remote server, sees all the files you already have, refuses to redownload them, and then edits the HTML links to relative when it's done. Nice.

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