The wget command is one of the most popular non-interactive command-line file downloaders in Linux. It can download multiple files/directories and can work in the background as well. The downloaded web page can be opened with any graphical or non-graphical browser.
Some of its popular features are as follows:
- Support of HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies
- Resume partial downloads
- Large file downloads
- Recursive downloads for mirroring a website
- Password-required downloads
The syntax of wget command is shown here:
$ wget <url>
An example of wget command usage is shown here:
