Wget

wget software supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, including HTTP proxies and FTP protocols.

• https://linux.die.net/man/1/wget
• wget --help

Usage

• wget http://www.example.com/
• wget http://www.example.com/file.txt -O my_new_name_to_file.txt
• wget -q http://www.example.com/file.txt

-q --quiet

• wget -r http://example.com/

-r --recursive Turn on recursive retrieving.

• wget --no-check-certificate

• wget -qO-

• wget -c

Activities

• Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget#Using_Wget
• Use links or lynx to dump an html page into a text file
• Display HTTP response headers (cURL)

Related

• wget2
• curl
• wget -O-
• Hrvoje Nikšić
• get_url
• Included in Alpine
• Download utility

See also

• Netcat
• wget, cURL, links, lynx, elinks, w3m, httpie, opensearch-cli curl, --no-check-certificate, wget --help
• aria2c with supports for HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink
• iwr (Invke-WebRequest) PowerShell functionality
• links (browser), lynx (browser), Elinks (browser) command line browsers