The wget command
The non-interactive network downloader. 8 examples from the lessons of the IVski Linux Playground — try them in the terminal next to them.
Options in the examples
-b- Go to background immediately after startup.
-c- Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.
-i file- Read URLs from a local or external file.
-l depth- Set the maximum number of subdirectories that Wget will recurse into to depth.
-O file- The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will be concatenated together and written to file.
-q- Turn off Wget's output.
-r- Turn on recursive retrieving. The default maximum depth is 5.
Examples
wget https://example.com/bigfile.zip &wget https://example.com/file.zipwget -O myfile.zip https://example.com/file.zipCustom name
wget -c https://example.com/bigfile.zipContinue download
wget -b https://example.com/file.zipwget -i urls.txtFile containing list of URLs
wget -r -l2 https://example.comRecursive, 2 levels deep
wget -q https://example.com/file.zipNo output