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Download from the Command-Line

wget is an invaluable utility. Use it from the command-line or a shell script to download a web page, an entire web site, a tarball, or just about any http: or ftp: URL. wget can also help debug HTTP and FTP connection problems.
Thursday, September 15th, 2005

wget is an invaluable utility. Use it from the command-line or a shell script to download a web page, an entire web site, a tarball, or just about any http: or ftp: URL. wget can also help debug HTTP and FTP connection problems.

Martin Streicher is the founder of Locomotive, an expert Rails consultancy. Formerly, he was Editor-in-Chief of Linux Magazine from 2002 to 2007. You can contact him at martin.streicher@linux-mag.com and follow him on Twitter.

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