Downloading files with wget

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Improve this answer. Qeole Qeole 8 8 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. It gets downloaded but it is not even a directory. If you look at the link ncbi. I still can't access them??

I suppose that the OP uses a shell that ignores? But the solution is the same: to quote the URL. Once you have downloaded it, run tar xvf GSE Another way that might possibly work is by using this command: wget -O nameOfTar. It has no incidence on downloaded data maybe that's what you meant, but I found it unclear. If you have an HTML file on your server and you want to download all the links within that page you need add --force-html to your command.

Usually, you want your downloads to be as fast as possible. However, if you want to continue working while downloading, you want the speed to be throttled. If you are downloading a large file and it fails part way through, you can continue the download in most cases by using the -c option.

Normally when you restart a download of the same filename, it will append a number starting with. If you want to schedule a large download ahead of time, it is worth checking that the remote files exist. The option to run a check on files is --spider. In circumstances such as this, you will usually have a file with the list of files to download inside. An example of how this command will look when checking for a list of files is:.

If you want to copy an entire website you will need to use the --mirror option. As this can be a complicated task there are other options you may need to use such as -p , -P , --convert-links , --reject and --user-agent. It is always best to ask permission before downloading a site belonging to someone else and even if you have permission it is always good to play nice with their server.

If you want to download a file via FTP and a username and password is required, then you will need to use the --ftp-user and --ftp-password options. If you are getting failures during a download, you can use the -t option to set the number of retries. Such a command may look like this:. If you want to get only the first level of a website, then you would use the -r option combined with the -l option. Avoid downloading all of the index.

Skip to content Guide for downloading all files and folders at a URL using Wget with options to clean up the download location and pathname. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website.