wget -idmv code example

Example: wget

The simplest way to use wget is to provide it with the location of a file to download over HTTP. For example, to download the file http://website.com/files/file.zip, this command:


$ wget http://website.com/files/file.zip


...would download the file into the working directory.

There are many options that allow you to use wget in different ways, for different purposes.