Comments on Linux Basics: How to Download Files on the Shell With Wget

Wget is a popular and easy to use command line tool that is primarily used for non-interactive downloading files from the web. wget helps users to download huge chunks of data, multiple files and to do recursive downloads. It supports the download protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and, FTPS). The following article explains the basic wget command syntax and shows examples for popular use cases of wget.