(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

A commandline file fetching and Mirroring program.

A core part of every Linux distribution. Essential, for when Lynx is just too terrible to use, and there's nothing else.

• curl is a solid alternative.

• You can also use Links or Lynx to download a page.

• Mirror > Mirroring a website with wget

• https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-mastering-wget-161202

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• 2016-03-28 - 1.14 (linux-gnu), on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-28 - 1.15, on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

• wget is found pretty much everywhere, and I've had it in my toolkit for probably every single distribution since the 90s.

2016-03-28 - 1.14 (linux-gnu) ∞

GNU Wget 1.14 built on linux-gnu.

+digest +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +nls +ntlm +opie +ssl/openssl 

Wgetrc: 
    /etc/wgetrc (system)
Locale: /usr/share/locale 
Compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC="/etc/wgetrc" 
    -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/share/locale" -I. -I../lib -I../lib -O2 
    -march=i486 -mtune=i686 
Link: gcc -O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 /usr/lib/libssl.so 
    /usr/lib/libcrypto.so /usr/lib/libz.so -ldl -lz -lz -lidn -luuid 
    -lpcre ftp-opie.o openssl.o http-ntlm.o ../lib/libgnu.a

• Comes installed, probably including it's install CD, but I didn't check.

2016-03-28 - 1.15 ∞

• Comes installed on Lubuntu, including it's liveCD

GNU Wget 1.15 built on linux-gnu.

+digest +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +nls +ntlm +opie +ssl/openssl

Usage ∞

\wget  --continue  example.com/filename.ext

Downloading a range of files ∞

See Bash for the range function. Then at the commandline you can do:

for i in $( range 1 9 ); do wget example.com/dir/file$i.ext;done

(this should be doable with seq)

This does:

wget example.com/dir/file1.ext
wget example.com/dir/file2.ext
wget example.com/dir/file3.ext
wget example.com/dir/file4.ext
wget example.com/dir/file5.ext
wget example.com/dir/file6.ext
wget example.com/dir/file7.ext
wget example.com/dir/file8.ext
wget example.com/dir/file9.ext

I don't currently see a way to do this downloading in the background. Try Screen.

As I understand, wget explicitly does not support a range feature itself. They just want to make your life hard.

Last updated 2020-11-08 at 21:36:27