GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary

more options refer to the examples section of the manual page, this tool is very well documented.


       Alternative website downloaders
        

You may like to try alternatives like httrack. A full GUI website downloader written in python and available for GNU/Linux



• curl
   

curl is another remote downloader. This remote downloader is designed to work without user interaction and supports a variety of protocols, can upload/download and has a large number of tricks/work-arounds for various things. It can access dictionary servers (dict), ldap servers, ftp, http, gopher, see the manual page for full details.

To access the full manual (which is huge) for this command type:


   

curl -M

For general usage you can use it like wget . You can also login using a user name by using the -u option and typing your username and password like this:


   

curl -u username:password http://www.placetodownload/file

To upload using ftp you the -T option:


   

curl -T file_name ftp://ftp.uploadsite.com

To continue a file use the -C option:


   

curl -C - -o file http://www.site.com

Notes

   wget manual page    

This way around the wildcard limitation has been adopted (with a tiny amount of editing) from wget manual page , see [9] in the Prev for further information.

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