06 June 2017

Basic usage of wget

wget http://www.site-name.com/file-name

To save under different name

$ wget -O new-name http://www.site-name.com/file-name

To save in a different directory

$ wget -P directory http://www.site-name.com/file-name

To download only if the web file is with different time stamp than previously downloaded file

wget -N http://www.site-name.com/file-name

To download all files of a given type ftype

wget -r -nd -A ftype --accept-regex ".*\.ftype" http://www.site-name.com/