Downloading from a web page

Downloading a file or a web page from a given URL is simple. A few command-line download utilities are available to perform this task.

Getting ready

wget is a file download command-line utility. It is very flexible and can be configured with many options.

How to do it...

A web page or a remote file can be downloaded by using wget, as follows:

$ wget URL

For example:

$ wget http://slynux.org 
--2010-08-01 07:51:20--  http://slynux.org/ 
Resolving slynux.org... 174.37.207.60 
Connecting to slynux.org|174.37.207.60|:80... connected. 
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK 
Length: 15280 (15K) [text/html] 
Saving to: "index.html" 

100%[======================================>] 15,280      75.3K/s   in 0.2s    

2010-08-01 07:51:21 (75.3 KB/s) - "index.html" saved [15280/15280]

It is also possible to specify multiple download URLs, as follows:

$ wget URL1 URL2 URL3 ..

How it works...

Usually, files are downloaded with the same filename as in the URL, and the...