Install wget and download files using it

How to install wget in Windows?

Step 1: Download wget.exe file from net.

Step 2: Add the location where this file is saved in the path variable.

Step 3: Go to command prompt and type wget.

How to install wget in Linux?

In linux, wget will be installed by default. If not, do yum search and install the latest version

>yum search wget

>yum install wget.XXXX

How to download a file from web using wget command?

wget [OPTIONS] [URL]

The below command will download the page from google and save it google.html file. The \ is line separator in Linux. In windows ^ is a line separator.

    wget      --quiet \

                 --timeout=30 \

                 --dns-timeout=30 \

                 --connect-timeout=30 \

                 --read-timeout=30 \

                 --tries=5 \

                 --waitretry=5 \

                 --timestamping \

                 --output-document google.html \

                 http://www.google.com

Here are some of the interesting options in wget.

1. timeout              - Specify timeout            
2. dns-timeout        - Dns lookup timeout
3. connect-timeout - connection timeout
4. read-timeout      - reading  timeout
5. tries                - how many times it should try to download
6. waitretry            - how many times it should retry to download
7. timestaming          - Don’t download if it is newer than the local file.
8. output-document   - save the download page in this file
9. quiet                - Don’t output log
10. verbose              - output the log
11. ftp-user             - username of the ftp server, if you download using ftp protocol.
12. ftp-password         - password of the ftp user