03-27-2006, 10:35 AM
Quote:Your browser does a good job of fetching web documents and displaying them, but there are times when you need an extra strength download manager to get those tougher HTTP jobs done.
A versatile, old school Unix program called Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can take care of all your downloading needs. Whether you want to mirror an entire web site, automatically download music or movies from a set of favorite weblogs, or transfer huge files painlessly on a slow or intermittent network connection, Wgets for you.
Wget, the non-interactive network retriever, is called at the command line. The format of a Wget command is:
wget [option]... [URL]...
full article: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/downl...161202.php