wget cheatsheet

• To download a URL:

$ wget url_to_download

It writes to the current directory with a filename same as in the URL.

• To download a URL, but write to a specific filename:

$ wget -O write_to_this_file url_to_download

• To download a URL and write inside a specific directory:

$ wget -P this_dir url_to_download

• To download a list of URLs stored in a file, one URL per line:

$ wget -i list_of_urls.txt

• By default, wget is quite verbose and displays progress bar and other details for each URL. To download quietly:

$ wget -q url_to_download

Tried with: Wget 1.15 and Ubuntu 14.04