Wednesday, November 12, 2008

UNIX/Linux command line download

Wget is a non-interactive download of files from the Web which supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. It can get download HTML links and craete a local copy. This tool is also capable of recursive downloading.

From the command line:

wget URL

Example:

wget http://www.coolstuff/download/file.zip

For additionla options (i.e authentucation, logging, etc..) try

man wget