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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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Using wget to save sequential files as well as renaming the file extension

I run a cron job that requests a snapshot from a remote webcam at a local address: wget http://user:pass@10.0.0.50/snapshot.cgi This creates the files snapshot.cgi, snapshot.cgi.1, snapshot.cgi.2, each time it's run. My desired result would be for…
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How can I use wget to get files recursively if the username contains an @?

Firstly my main goal is to try and get FTP files recursively in Centos. However the actual FTP login contains an @ which ruins the syntax. Is there some way to place the username in "double quotes" or some such equivalent such that I can use @in…
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Download Sun Studio via CLI

Can anybody please guide me how to download the sun studio from CLI. I was using wget and lynx programs but not worked. As I have only SSH access to my server and I cant not download it on local machine and upload it on server, will be bad option…
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transfer code from one server to other server

I wanted to transfer new code into my new production server. I have code files on my development server. Instead of uploading files using FTP from my local machine, there is other way to transfer code from one server to other. What I am thinking I…
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DNS issue on Fedora 12? wget wordpress.org fails where wget www.google.com works

I'm administering a Fedora 12 box, but am quite new to networking specifics. Recently one of our WordPress apps hosted on our server has stopped being able to perform its auto-update or auto-download of plugins. Investigating further, I have tried…
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Download error for php data using wget

I am trying to download data from my server using wget. I send the login details and store the cookie. I then rotate through 50 numbers to copy the data into new files. The saved files are always blank i.e 0kb file size. My website stores data on…
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WGet from one site on a server to another site on the same server

Hey all, I've recently been asked to administer a couple ubuntu boxes running web servers. I'm a dev by trade so if this question is fairly noob please forgive. We have about a dozen sites running on this box. 2 of our sites need to talk back and…
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URL arguments and Webserver configuration

I am trying to archive an old wordpress blog of mine. So far the best way I have found to do this is via wget. The problem is the name of the files it generates, like "index.html?cat=3&paged=3.html". When I open this file in my browser off a local…
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is there a problem in disabling curl and wget?

Is it recommended to disable curl and wget to disallow anyone from accessing my websites using those commands? Or is it needed for some search engines to access my websites? What are your recommendations regarding curl and wget?
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I'm seeing a lot of wget requests, should I be worried

I've got a web based application that I've developed and I'm seeing a lot of wget requests on the site. Should I be worried that someone is trying to hack/rip the site. I don't know what they would do with it, the "intelligence" of the system in…
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How to tell wget to use the name of the target file behind the HTTP redirect?

Let's a consider link such as htttp://www.mysite.net/download.php?id=267 that redirects to htttp://www.mysite.net/downloads/myfile.tar.gz If I execute 'wget "htttp://www.mysite.net/download.php?id=267"' wget will happily download and save the result…
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wget doesn't take variable http_proxy

If I run: echo $http_proxy It output: http://user:pass@host:port But when I run: wget www.google.com It output: Resolviendo www.google.com... 209.85.195.104 Caching www.google.com => 209.85.195.104 Conectando a…
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Does crontab file automatically bash a text file?

I have a crontab job setup. In the crontab file, I have a path to a text file. My text file has a wget command (which in turn, executes a PHP file). If the crontab file just has the path to the text file, will it automatically bash (execute) that…
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Downloading file with different unique name

How to download file with different unique name each time wget -O image.jpg "http://localhost/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=1" Using wget's -O option overwrites file each time. What I want is: image-1.jpg, image-2.jpg, image-3.jpg etc. each…
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wget/curl from internal network (web server) to external ip address (web server) connection failed

for some monitoring purposes on my own software i want to call wget with the "external" UR of the webserver, so my call will look like wget https://www.mydomain.de/path But this call fails with the error message: Connection failed. When i make the…
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