wget: Simple Usage
7.1 Simple Usage
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• Say you want to download a URL. Just type:
wget http://fly.srk.fer.hr/
• But what will happen if the connection is slow, and the file is
lengthy? The connection will probably fail before the whole file
is retrieved, more than once. In this case, Wget will try getting
the file until it either gets the whole of it, or exceeds the
default number of retries (this being 20). It is easy to change
the number of tries to 45, to insure that the whole file will
arrive safely:
wget --tries=45 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg
• Now let’s leave Wget to work in the background, and write its
progress to log file ‘log’. It is tiring to type ‘--tries’, so we
shall use ‘-t’.
wget -t 45 -o log http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg &
The ampersand at the end of the line makes sure that Wget works in
the background. To unlimit the number of retries, use ‘-t inf’.
• The usage of FTP is as simple. Wget will take care of login and
password.
wget ftp://gnjilux.srk.fer.hr/welcome.msg
• If you specify a directory, Wget will retrieve the directory
listing, parse it and convert it to HTML. Try:
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
links index.html
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