the --no-directories option incorrectly documented in the man page

Bug #1930139 reported by Bill Yikes
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Bug Description

man page shows:

       -nd
       --no-directories
           Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively. With this option turned on, all files will get saved
           to the current directory, without clobbering (if a name shows up more than once, the filenames will get extensions .n).

The way that's written implies that the -nd option would conflict with the -P option. But when -nd is combined with --directory-prefix (-P), wget honors the prefix and also downloads to a flat non-hierarchical "structure". The behavior is sensible but the docs are wrong (-nd does not necessarily download to the current dir).

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