wget: Simple Usage
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1 7.1 Simple Usage
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1 • Say you want to download a URL. Just type:
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1 wget http://fly.srk.fer.hr/
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1 • But what will happen if the connection is slow, and the file is
1 lengthy? The connection will probably fail before the whole file
1 is retrieved, more than once. In this case, Wget will try getting
1 the file until it either gets the whole of it, or exceeds the
1 default number of retries (this being 20). It is easy to change
1 the number of tries to 45, to insure that the whole file will
1 arrive safely:
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1 wget --tries=45 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg
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1 • Now let’s leave Wget to work in the background, and write its
1 progress to log file ‘log’. It is tiring to type ‘--tries’, so we
1 shall use ‘-t’.
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1 wget -t 45 -o log http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg &
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1 The ampersand at the end of the line makes sure that Wget works in
1 the background. To unlimit the number of retries, use ‘-t inf’.
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1 • The usage of FTP is as simple. Wget will take care of login and
1 password.
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1 wget ftp://gnjilux.srk.fer.hr/welcome.msg
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1 • If you specify a directory, Wget will retrieve the directory
1 listing, parse it and convert it to HTML. Try:
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1 wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
1 links index.html
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