Doncha just love wget?
Sometimes you want to read online novels or fanfiction and it’s quite annoying to save the pages one by one, especially when there’s a lot. Thankfully though, there’s wget which would fetch the files for you. ;) Recently, I got hooked on to a Korean tv series which happens to be based on a novel. Someone translated it on her blog so I needed to mirror her blog on my computer so I could read the entire novel’s translation easily. Jon here has a post on using wget and how useful it is.
wget <http://domain.name.com/filename>
That saves the file to your current directory.
And if you want to mirror a site, you could use the “–mirror” option and try not to forget to convert the links to have html extensions. You could convert them via “–html-extension” for easier reading.
If you need to download things, wget is really nifty. I think this is one of the things that I’d like to learn more about so I could use it more often when I download things.
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1 opinion for Doncha just love wget?
timelady
Nov 14, 2007 at 8:57 pm
the under rated joy of things like wget is why you can prise cli from my cold,dead hands:)
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