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* Updated package - Lucid 528-005 uses 1.12



Homepage:

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:

Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
NLS-based message files for many different languages
Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
Supports HTTP proxies
Supports HTTP cookies
Supports persistent HTTP connections
Unattended / background operation
Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring
GNU Wget is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

NB wget-1.13.4-i686 is the binary file, the other two are not required unless you want the documentation and native language support (non-english)

[RetroTechGuy]

And how about a sample batch file (I don't recall what version of wget I'm using, but I doubt there have been any significant changes)

I have a file called something like "get50" (as in get 50 MB, then exit). Create a file, cut and paste the following text into it.

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