wget via comand promt (ssh?)
 

Hi there,



I remember a while ago my server admin was explaining wget to me and I found it an extremely useful tool, however I have since forgot how to sue it properly. Could someone donate maybe 3 mminutes of their time to me who knows how to use this program? I would be most grateful :)

Thx,
Steen.

theres only one use for it really.


go to the dir you want to download something into, and then type:

wget URL

its basically saying, DOWNLOAD THIS.

Bring your post back to the Q and A section of the forum. :winkwink:

What Magg said works. If you want to know more, try:

man wget

It's a great program.

wget http://filename
wget ftp://filename

you get the idea.

You can actually use it to spider a site and download all the content

Yes!

My old server admin told me how to do this and it was very useful!

I would log in with this program I have (putty) and type in about 10 words in a command prompt and after say one minute I would have all the content from a site from however many links deep I specified.

Anyone fluent with how to use this awesome program?

wget -r -np url

grabs everything, saves it.

Thanks!

What do you mean by "everything"?

I don't want it to follow links to external sites (yahoo.com) and download the entire internet, lol :Graucho