Difference between revisions of "Wget"

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The correct title of this article is wget. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.

wget - The non-interactive network downloader.

Download multiple files

• Create variable that holds all urls and then using 'BASH foo loop' to download all files:

% URLS="http://www.example.com/foo.tar.gz ftp://ftp.example.org/pub/bar.tar.gz"

• Use for loop as follows:

% for u in $URLS; do wget $u; done

• You can also put a list of the URLs in a file and download using the -i option:

% wget -i download.txt

See also

• axel
• prozilla

External links

• GNU Wget Manual — last update: 15-Jun-2005
• Geek to Live: Mastering Wget
• wget: your ultimate command line downloader