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Big Brother is highly flexible. This section documents all of the options which can be specified on its command line. A short summary can be obtained by invoking bigbro -help.

• General syntax
• Syntax of URLs
• Setting up mappings: -mapfrom and -mapto
• Controlling recursion: -rec
• Checking -local or -remote links
• Configuring local checks: -index and -localhtml
• Using a proxy: -proxy and -noproxy
• Controlling concurrency: -maxthreads
• Reading from a pipe: -stdin
• Measuring one's patience: -timeout
• Being -gentle with servers
• Using passwords: -realm, -user and -password
• Reporting results: -oraw and -ohtml
• Focusing on -failures
• Checking -fragments
• Ignoring certain links: -ignore
• Getting version information: -v

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