Thanks a lot! There is only one problem: This method does not work for zip files. It is possible to download an entire directory instead of one single file?
Anonymous at Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Click to Copy. We will be downloading two HTML files from two different websites. For better understanding, please look at the image below:. Here filename refers to the name that you want to address the file as. Using this, we can also change the type of the file. This is shown in the image below:.
Wget also allows users to recursively download their files which is basically downloading all the files from the website under a single directory. For more information regarding Wget, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Wget commands that appear to be available:. Curl is another command line tool that can be used to download files from the internet. Unlike Wget, which is command line only, features of Curl are powered by libcurl which is a cross-platform URL transfer library.
Curl not only allows downloading of files but can also be used for uploading and exchanging of requests with servers. However, Curl does not support recursive downloads which Wget offers. Similarly, like Wget, Curl comes pre-installed with most of the Linux Distributions. This can simply be checked by running the following command:. Note that you can change the file name by using the -o lower-case option we've explained earlier.
While using wget, you can also limit the downloading speed. This can be done using the -limit-rate option, which requires a value signifying the amount in terms of bytes per second.
The amount could be in bytes, kilobytes with the 'k' suffix, or megabytes with the 'm' suffix. Read timeout is the amount of time in seconds for which wget checks for data in case no data is being received before restarting the download.
By default read timeout is seconds but you can change this by using the —read-timeout option. Whenever your download is interrupted due to bad internet connection or any other error, the tool tries to resume the download by itself. By default, the utility tries 20 times and then stops. But if you want to increase or decrease the number of tries, you can do it by using the -t command line option.
NOTE : This feature comes with the exception of fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" , which are not retried. If you want, you can also make the wget command display additional information related to the download process. This information is useful for debugging purposes if the tool isn't working properly. The feature can be accessed using the --debug or -d command line option. If you want, you can also modify the download progress indicator wget displays in output.
There are two types of progress indicators: bar which is default and dot. If the file was called filename If you want to download a large file and close your connection to the server you can use the command:. If you want to download multiple files you can create a text file with the list of target files. Each filename should be on its own line. You would then run the command:. You can also do this with an HTML file.
If you have an HTML file on your server and you want to download all the links within that page you need add --force-html to your command. Usually, you want your downloads to be as fast as possible. However, if you want to continue working while downloading, you want the speed to be throttled. If you are downloading a large file and it fails part way through, you can continue the download in most cases by using the -c option.
Normally when you restart a download of the same filename, it will append a number starting with. If you want to schedule a large download ahead of time, it is worth checking that the remote files exist.
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