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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 starts downloading then stops "cannot write to"

I'm using wget to mirror some files across from one server to another. I'm using the following command: wget -x -N -i http://domain.com/filelist.txt -x = Because I want to keep the directory structure -N = Timestamping to only get new files -i = To…
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How do I pipe the output of uptime/df to curl?

I want to send the output of uptime and df commands to a web app using cURL. I tried: uptime | curl http://someurl.com -T - But that didn't seem to send the data. What is the proper way to send the output of a command to cURL as a POST parameter?…
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Accessing a windows shared folder from Linux?

I am trying to copy a (.html) file from a Windows XP Professional shared folder onto a server running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS. As it's a shared folder the usual 'wget' doesn't seem to work. I suspect I'm using the wrong address style completely. I…
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Where can I (safely) get libintl3.dll?

I am having problems running the Windows version of wget on a Windows 7 machine. When I run the command I get this error: The program can't start because libintl3.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this…
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wget recursive download, but I don't want to follow all links

I'm trying to mirror a website using wget, but I don't want to download lots of files, so I'm using wget's --reject option to not save all the files. However wget will still download all the files and then remove the file afterwards if it matches my…
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Using client certificates with wget

I cannot get wget to use the client certificates. The documentation speaks about using the --certificate flag. The use of the certificate flag is clear, I set it to use the PEM version of the client certificate. But when I connect I get the…
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wget ftp connection failing after PASV command

In attempting to transfer all files from one web server ("source") to another ("destination"), the wget command is connecting via FTP, but cannnot proceed beyond the PASV command. I'm using an SSH connection to the "destination" server (a Linux box…
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How can i make wget download only pages not css images etc?

I want to download an entire website using wget but I don't want wget to download images, videos etc. I tried wget -bqre robots=off -A.html example.com –user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725…
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What to do if wget's progress:mega doen't cut it anymore?

I have script for downloading large files in a queue. Now I would really appreciate it, if I had a decent log. Specifying the -o or -a option is apparently specially made for that, however as of the time I am writing this "very large files", as the…
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How to refresh an online website mirror created with `wget --mirror`?

One month ago, I used "wget --mirror" to create a mirror of our public website for temporary use during an upcoming scheduled maintenance window. Our primary website runs HTML, PHP & MySQL, but the mirror just needs to be HTML-only, no…
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curl succeeds on an https request, wget does not

When I run curl from the command line curl "https://example.com" It succeeds immediately, returning the result of the request. When I run the same wget command wget https://example.com It eventually times out with "Unable to establish SSL…
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Wget, Curl, Yum Fail but Ping works - CentOS 5

We currently have three webservers. Servers one and two behave, but I'm having real problems with the third. wget, curl and yum all fail to make their connections - that is, they all hang after resolving the host and attempting a connection. Example…
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How to install wget on this?

I did download RubyStack 2.0.3 for VMWare (Ubuntu 9.10) but I cannot download anything on it! It appears that all basic utilities are missing/screwed: bitnami@linux:/var/tmp$ wget -bash: wget: command not found bitnami@linux:/var/tmp$ curl curl:…
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How to allow wget to overwrite files

Using wget command, how do I allow/instruct to overwrite my local file everytime, irrespective of how many times I invoke. Let's say, I want to download a file from the location: http://server/folder/file1.html Here, whenever I say wget…
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Why does Amazon Linux 2 have older version of wget vs. Amazon Linux 1?

We noticed that wget on Amazon Linux 2 is v1.14, but on the older version of Amazon Linux, it was v1.18. Any idea why this would be? I'm fairly certain we installed from yum in both cases. Is there a way to get yum to install a more modern wget…
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