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Wget Command

Wget is a command line tool used to download files from servers using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. It provides options to download multiple files, resume downloads, limit bandwidth, recursively download directories, and download in the background. Wget can download a single file with its URL, specify a different filename, download from a text file of URLs, resume incomplete downloads by appending .1, and restrict download speeds.

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Wget Command

Wget is a command line tool used to download files from servers using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. It provides options to download multiple files, resume downloads, limit bandwidth, recursively download directories, and download in the background. Wget can download a single file with its URL, specify a different filename, download from a text file of URLs, resume incomplete downloads by appending .1, and restrict download speeds.

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wget command

Introduction
• Wget is the non-interactive network downloader
which is used to download files from the server 
• GNU (GNU's not Unix) Wget is a command-line utility
for downloading files from the web.
• With Wget, we can download files using HTTP, HTTPS,
and FTP protocols.
• Wget provides a number of options
• download multiple files
• resume downloads
• limit the bandwidth
• recursive downloads
• download in the background
• mirror a website
How to Download a File with
Wget
• In it’s simplest form when used without any option,
wget will download the resource specified in the
[url] to the current directory.
$wget https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python3/python_tutorial.pdf
• Wget starts by resolving the IP address of the
domain
• connects to the remote server
• starts the transfer
• During the download
• Wget shows the progress bar alongside with the file
name, file size, download speed, and the estimated
time to complete the download.
• current working directory
Download file with different name
• Using -O (uppercase) option, downloads file with
different file name.
Download multiple file with http and ftp protocol
• download multiple files
using HTTP and FTP protocol with wget command
at ones.
Read URL’s from a file

• we can store number of URL’s in text file and


download them with -i option.
• we have created tmp.txt under wget directory
• put series of URL’s to download.
Resume uncompleted download
• In case of big file download, it may happen
sometime to stop download
• we can resume download the same file where it
was left off with -c option.
• But when you start download file without
specifying -c option wget will add .1 extension at
the end of file, considering as a fresh download.
• So, it’s good practice to add -c switch when you
download big files.
Download file with appended .1 in file name

when we start download without -c option wget add .1 at


the end of file and start with fresh download.
If .1 already exist .2 append at the end of file.
Download files in background

• With -b option we can send download in


background immediately after download start and
logs are written in /wget/log.txt file.
Restrict download speed limits

• With Option --limit-rate=10k, the download speed


limit is restricted to 100k and the logs will be
created under /wget/log.txt

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