GNU Wget is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off.
The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites, is supported: you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands /robots.txt).
Online manual is available at www.gnu.org/manual/wget/index.html
Wget can be found on in the subdirectory /gnu/wget/
on your favorite
GNU mirror. For other ways to
obtain Wget, please read
How to get GNU Software
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Updated: 11 Dec 1999 jonas