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Mastering Wget & Learning Some Neat Downloading Tricks

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http://www.makeuseof.com – Sometimes it’s just not enough to save a website locally from your browser. Sometimes you need a little bit more power. For this, there’s a neat little command line tool known as Wget. Wget is a simple program which is able to download files from the Internet. You may or may not know much about Wget already, but after reading this article you’ll be prepared to use it for all sorts of tricks. Wget is available to use natively in UNIX and Windows command-line, but it’s possible to install wget on Mac OS X with a bit of coaxing. So, once you know the sorts of things you ca (General)

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WGET help! 33 weeks 2 days ago

Hi Friends,

I have an url like this

Code: http://www.unix.com/help/ In this help directory, I have more than 300 directories which contains file or files.

So, the 300 directories are like this

Code: http://unix.com/help/

dir1file1dir2file2dir3file3_1file3_2................................ dir300file300 Now, I would like to download all those files with wget command.