A typical way to download a file is to “right-click” on it and “save as” to a folder on your computer.\u00a0 Downloading a few files this way is not tedious.\u00a0 But if an audio book has 25 to 30 files you can bet I don’t want to do those manual moves over and over again.<\/p>\n
Using a terminal, there’s a faster way to download files.\u00a0 I’ll introduce now one of my often-used commands: wget<\/strong>.\u00a0 This command has many useful options.\u00a0 For example, you can download files, set up custom directory structures for your download(s), or see if a file exists without actually downloading it.<\/p>\n Using the command (in simple terms): Open a terminal and type wget [options] [urls] <\/strong>at the prompt (usually a dollar sign).\u00a0 You can use one or several URLs.\u00a0 Options are (well…) optional.<\/p>\n Here’s a practical example where you can download a gif image from the O’Reilly site linked below.\u00a0 When you open a Linux terminal, you are usually in your user’s “home” directory.\u00a0 This is fine for the purpose of this example.\u00a0 Issue the command<\/p>\n Here’s what will happen: the file 0596009305_bkt.gif<\/strong> gets downloaded and saved to your home folder.\u00a0 Cool right? But it was a bit of work (typing) just to download one file.\u00a0 How does this save me time?<\/em><\/p>\n Yes, the above example is overly-simplified.\u00a0 You can, if you wish, download any “.gif” or “.jpg” files from a given web address in the example below.\u00a0 It’s a time-saving single command, borrowed from the commandlinefu website<\/a> mentioned in the “cool and advanced uses of wget” link below.<\/p>\n *Change the “example.com\/images” to a valid web address.\u00a0 The options above (explained) are:<\/p>\n You can find more wget info and options here<\/a>.\u00a0 For really cool and advanced uses of wget, see this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ll post another awesome usage of wget in another post.\u00a0 Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to use wget; download many files with one command. A typical way to download a file is to “right-click” on it and “save as” to a folder on your computer.\u00a0 Downloading a few files this way is not tedious.\u00a0 But if an audio book has 25 to 30 files you can bet I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,23],"tags":[26,31],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-apps","category-command-line","category-use-linux","tag-commands","tag-wget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}wget http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/covers\/0596009305_bkt.gif<\/pre>\n
wget -r -l1 --no-parent -nH -nd -A\".gif,.jpg\" http:\/\/example.com\/images<\/pre>\n
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