WGET Commands Cheat Sheet
Here is a cli commands cheat sheet for WGET command, you can use this as a quick reminder for basic commands with a brief description for each of the commands.
What is WGET command?
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# To download :
wget
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# To download multiples files with multiple URLs:
wget ...
# To download and change its name:
wget -O
# To download into :
wget -P
# To continue an aborted downloaded:
wget -c
# To parse a file that contains a list of URLs to fetch each one:
wget -i url_list.txt
# To mirror a whole page locally:
wget -pk
# To mirror a whole site locally:
wget -mk
# To download files according to a pattern:
wget http://example.com/files-{1..15}.tar.bz2
# To download all the files in a directory with a specific extension if directory indexing is enabled:
wget -r -l1 -A.extension http://example.com/directory
# To download only response headers (-S --spider) and display them on stdout (-O -).:
wget -S --spider -O -
# To change the User-Agent to 'User-Agent: toto':
wget -U 'toto'
# To download a file with specific speed EX:500kb/sec:
wget --limit-rate=500k
Check out the WGET command documentation .
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