Chapter 62. The Word on Wget
OK, you laggardly louts come late to the Linux party, listen up! We’re talking about GNU Wget: the behind-the-scenes, under-the-hood, don’t-need-watching, network utility that speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP with equal fluency.
Wget makes it easy to download a personal copy of a website from the Internet to peruse offline at your leisure, or retrieve the complete contents of a distribution directory on a remote FTP site.
The basic format for the wget command is as follows:
wget -OPTIONS PROTOCOL://URL |
Let’s save the OPTIONS for later, and begin by looking at the PROTOCOL://URL combination. As noted above, wget groks HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
Indicate how you want to talk to the remote site by specifying one of: http, https, or ...
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