wget is a very handful utility to download files over the internet. It can handle most of the scenarios like background download,multiple downloads,non interactive downloads etc. we can look at useful options wget provides.
 

Download a file:

wget http://example.com/sample.zip


Save or Write wget output to file

wget -o log.txt http://example.com/sample.zip


Continue from last location

wget -c http://example.com/sample.zip
It can be useful when downloading large file.
 

Download file in the background

wget http://example.com/sample.zip &


Download multiples files

wget  -i download-urls.txt
download-urls.txt contains links like this:
http://example.com/file.html
http://example.com/file2.html
....
....


Specify number of Retry attempts

wget -t=3 http://example.com/sample.zip


Download full website using wget

wget --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./LOCAL-DIR WEBSITE-URL


Download only specific files from the url

wget -r --accept "*.jpg" http://example.com/sample.zip


 


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