Wget

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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

   

Further reading and resources