How to use wget to download a file from a website?
Published on Aug. 22, 2023, 12:17 p.m.
To use wget
to download a file from a website, you can use the following command line syntax:
wget [options] [URL]
Where [options]
are optional parameters you can use to specify things like the output file name, download location and protocol, and [URL]
is the URL of the file that you want to download.
For example, the following command will download a file named example.zip
from a URL https://www.example.com/example.zip
and save it to the current directory:
wget https://www.example.com/example.zip
You can use the -P
option to specify a download location path like this:
wget -P /path/to/download https://www.example.com/example.zip
Alternatively, you can use the -O
option to specify the output file name like this:
wget -O newfilename.zip https://www.example.com/example.zip
These are just some basic examples, and you can check the wget
man page for more options.