The Ultimate Wget Download Guide With 15 Awesome Examples

wget utility is the best option to download files from internet. wget can pretty much handle all complex download situations including large file downloads, recursive downloads, non-interactive downloads, multiple file downloads etc.,

In this article let us review how to use wget for various download scenarios using 15 awesome wget examples.

1. Download Single File with wget

The following example downloads a single file from internet and stores in the current directory.

$ wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2

While downloading it will show a progress bar with the following information:

• %age of download completion (for e.g. 31% as shown below)
• Total amount of bytes downloaded so far (for e.g. 1,213,592 bytes as shown below)
• Current download speed (for e.g. 68.2K/s as shown below)
• Remaining time to download (for e.g. eta 34 seconds as shown below)

Download in progress:

$ wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2.1'

31% [=================> 1,213,592   68.2K/s  eta 34s

Download completed:

$ wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2'

100%[======================>] 3,852,374   76.8K/s   in 55s    

2009-09-25 11:15:30 (68.7 KB/s) - `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2' saved [3852374/3852374]

2. Download and Store With a Different