Top "Wget" questions

A GNU non-interactive(can be called from scripts, cron jobs , terminals without the X-Windows support, etc.

wget: don't follow redirects

How do I prevent wget from following redirects?

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How to `wget` a list of URLs in a text file?

Let's say I have a text file of hundreds of URLs in one location, e.g. http://url/file_to_…

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How to rename the downloaded file with wget?

To download the SOFA Statistics from the server I use the wget command: wget -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofastatistics/…

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How can I download a file from an S3 bucket with wget?

I can push some content to an S3 bucket with my credentials through S3cmd tool with s3cmd put …

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Variables in wget post data

I am working on a simple bash script to download images from the website Tumblr. The idea is to use …

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Getting directory listing over http

There is a directory that is being served over the net which I'm interested in monitoring. Its contents are various …

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checking wget's return value [if]

I'm writing a script to download a bunch of files, and I want it to inform when a particular file …

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How to download a file into a directory using curl or wget?

I know I can use the following 2 commands to download a file: curl -O example.com/file.zip wget example.…

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How to show wget progress bar only?

For example: wget http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg downloading: TheFile.tar.gz ... --09:30:42-- http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg => `/…

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Download a file from google drive using wget

I want to download the file that is viewable at this address to a linux remote: https://drive.google.com/…

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