Useful wget commands

wget is a very handful utility to download files over the internet. It can handle most of the scenarios like background download,multiple downloads,non interactive downloads etc. we can look at useful options wget provides.
 

Download a file:

wget http://example.com/sample.zip

Save or Write wget output to file

wget -o log.txt http://example.com/sample.zip

Continue from last location

wget -c http://example.com/sample.zip

It can be useful when downloading large file.
 

Download file in the background

wget http://example.com/sample.zip &

Download multiples files

wget  -i download-urls.txt

download-urls.txt contains links like this:
http://example.com/file.html
http://example.com/file2.html
....
....

Specify number of Retry attempts

wget -t=3 http://example.com/sample.zip

Download full website using wget

wget --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./LOCAL-DIR WEBSITE-URL

Download only specific files from the url

wget -r --accept "*.jpg" http://example.com/sample.zip