Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

A web page or a remote file can be downloaded using wget:

$ wget URL

For example:

$ wget knopper.net
--2016-11-02 21:41:23--  http://knopper.net/
Resolving knopper.net... 85.214.68.145
Connecting to knopper.net|85.214.68.145|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6899 (6.7K) [text/html]
Saving to: "index.html.1"


100% [=============================]45.5K=0.1s

2016-11-02 21:41:23 (45.5 KB/s) - "index.html.1" saved
[6899/6899]

It is also possible to specify multiple download URLs:

$ wget URL1 URL2 URL3 ..