wget Output File

• Wget command helps to download number of packages from web.
• Wget supports https, http and ftp protocols.
• You can download packages very easily even if your net connection is very slow.
• Wget is best suitable for very slow and unstable network connections.
• Support SSL/TLS It supports encrypted download through SSL/TLS.
• Download through proxies It can download through proxies and have web access through inside firewall.

To Install

			
					apt-get install wget

dpkg -i wget

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

How to download a zip file via http. You can download any file with wget. For Example , Download the latest wordpress zip

Wget Save As

			
					wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

• With wget command you can also resume your downloads.
• You may be downloading any package and for some reason you had to stop your download.
• You can again restart the download from the same place where it was stopped.

wget FileName

			
					wget -O cj.zip http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

Check if the file exist

• Just want to determine wheather the remote file exist at the destination then use spider option with wget.

			
					wget --spider http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

wGet Version

• To know your wget version.

			
					wget version

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

wget to file

• Download only only PDF files from specific domains.

Download full contents of website.

			
					wget -m --domains=example.org, a.example.org, b.example.org, c.example.org -A=pdf http://www.example.org/

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

wGet download file

			
					wget -nd -r -P /Downloads/ -A jpeg,gif,png http://www.examples.com/imgs/

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

wget Examples of Image Download

• -P Prefix directory it set the path where all the downloaded files and directories will be saved.