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GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, support for proxies, and much more. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the Web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with most major GNU/Linux based distributions. Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system.

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wget only works for some users

Currently have a strange situation: wget only works for one user on a system -- and root isn't it. There are three user accounts, user A, B and root. User A can use wget with no problems. User B and root receive connection timeouts with wget. This…
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What does -q and -O mean?

What does -q and -O mean in the following cronjob? */30 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.php
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Has anyone experienced unintentional traffic overload due to clients' use of wget?

I am wondering if it is wise to indiscriminately block wget on servers that I maintain. Has anyone experienced unintentional traffic overload due to clients' use of wget?
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Hourly CRON task running more frequently than one hour

I have a cron task that calls a special PHP script via wget. Here is the crontab entry: 0 * * * * wget http://www.... It will work perfect for several days, running on the hour. However, after a few days the cron job will start to be called several…
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Crontab repeats every 15 min

My cronjob is being repeated every 15 minutes and I don't have any idea why. Here is the crontab file with real commands replaced: # m h dom mon dow command # Comment 0 9 * * * command arg1 0 14 * * * command arg1 0 19 * * * command arg1 0 1 * *…
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YARN + how to debug wget

we are testing with wget VIA port 8088 the connection from ResourceManager02 to ResourceManager01 both Resource Managers are part of YARN service , and each resource manager service installed on RHEL 7.9 version as the following wget…
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wget mirroring, subdomains and directories and cookies

I have an account on a web page that is now "full" (ie I have used up all my allocated space) and I would like to make a mirror of that site. wget seems like the thing to use. The problem is that I would only like to mirror the sites the lie within…
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How to save output file to /dev/null with axel command?

I want to download a file from another server and then save it to /dev/null in order to increase monthly traffic of the first server. As man axel says, I should either use -o file or --output=file, but this is the issue: axel -an16 -o /dev/null…
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curl and wget fail to verify wildcard Let's Encrypt certificate, but browsers work fine

We've obtained a wildcard certificate from Let's Encrypt for civility.social and *.civility.social, using certbot. This works fine on all browsers and with curl and wget when verifying https://civility.social, or https://graphql.civility.social. The…
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How To Use Wget Command To Check Server Cache Settings

I'm having trouble with a server side cache with an OpenLiteSpeed server. I've tried the following .htaccess trick to try and turn this cache off. Can you tell me a wget command I can use to test my website to see if caching is disabled properly? I…
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Why ping statment doesn't work on this Linux Ubuntu VM?

I am not so into networking and I have the following doubt. They provide me a Linux Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS VM on which I have to install some tools. The first thing that I tried was related to the Internet connectivity, so I tried to ping Google…
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Connect to ubuntu port from docker container

I have a application running on port 8180 on my local machine When I try to wget http://192.168.1.12:8180/auth from docker container, I get following error --2019-10-10 08:17:03-- http://192.168.1.12:8180/auth Connecting to 192.168.1.12:8180...…
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How can I force `wget` to clobber a previously-downloaded file?

I'm trying to force wget to clobber a download and I haven't been able to make it do it with what I can find in the man pages. I'd like something cleaner than writing to and redirecting STDOUT. Anyone got a tip? I know I can use curl for this; I am…
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Git clone, wget, ping not working on GCP server all of a sudden

My Google Cloud Platform server is suddenly unable to download anything via wget, git clone, and unable to apt-get install anything. --2019-05-07 14:48:02-- http://google.com/ Resolving google.com (google.com)... failed: Temporary failure in name…
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CentOS 7: curl and wget not working

My problem is that curl and wget usually fail to retrieve more than just the first part of any given file, and often nothing at all. Both have worked previously on the same server, and nothing else on my network has changed - and I'm not really sure…
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