Saturday, February 12, 2011

wget

wget : is a non interactive way of downloading software from web. It supports http, ftp, https protocols as well as retrieval from http proxies.
wget is non interactive means it can run in a background without user logged in.
ex: wget <URL>  on terminal. where URL is the URL of the software package from where it can be downloaded.
various options are also present  (see man wget).
for ex :wget http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/

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