Terminal – Terminal Timing Out with wget on macOS

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I am using Terminal to wget images from a list of urls in a text file, using the command: wget -i septweetsimages.csv.

When the operation hits url and can't connect to its server, Terminal continues in an infinite loop to try to connect, prompting the following result:

"Connecting to wtim.es (wtim.es)|69.58.188.49|:80... failed: Operation timed out.
Retrying."

How can I get the process to continue on to the next url in the list after say 2 failed connections?

Best Answer

Please run "man wget" in Terminal and view the description for the option "--tries". Example shown includes "--tries=10".