Wget

wget

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GNU wget is a Unix command line tool to transfer files via http, https and ftp. It is non-interactive and therefore ideal for being incorporated in cron jobs and scripts, for example to mirror files between servers, or to retrieve Web-page contents for screenscraping, e.g. with the Perl backtick operator.

 

Introductory reading

 

Installation

 

Download

1. navigate to the GNU project Wget homepage:

2. open a terminal session, navigate to your download directory and type the usual (remember to use the tab key for filename completion :-):

gunzip wget-1.13.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf wget-1.13.4.tar.
cd wget-1.13.4.

Compile

Type:

configure
make
sudo make install
make clean

That should be all

 

Use

• wget

The GNU wget manual

   

Further reading and resources