Save as a different filename with -O option.
Don’t forget to enclose the URL in if it has >1 parameters (& mark)!
# Not gonna work: wget -O nt.gif http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/css-rounded-box/rounded.php cn=nt&co=e4ecec&ci=A9B8CF # Gonna work: wget -O nt.gif 'http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/css-rounded-box/rounded.php cn=nt&co=e4ecec&ci=A9B8CF'
Warning about & characters
Many URLs contain & characters. That’s fine as far as your web browser is concerned, but on the command line, & takes on a special meaning: it causes the command before the & to be started and backgrounded and then the part after the & (which in the case of a URL, wouldn’t be a valid command but it would be treated as a command nonetheless) to be started and foregrounded.
> echo 1 & echo 2 [2] 11524 2 1 [2]- Done echo 1
> wget http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=wikipedia&filename=mediawiki-1.6.5.tar.gz&use_mirror=easynews [2] 11320 [3] 11321 ... [2] Exit 1 wget http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=wikipedia [3]- Done filename=mediawiki-1.6.5.tar.gz
To get around this, simply and enclose the URL in quotes:
> wget "http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=wikipedia&filename=mediawiki-1.6.5.tar.gz&use_mirror=easynews"
Retrying a troublesome download
http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2007/09/wget-re-tries.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-11 11:18.
So, the wget program grabbing the file from the Internet running in background sputters after 20 or so tries and gives up. This calls for extreme measures.
$ wget -t 0 -c http://examplesite.com/pub/xxxx.bz2The
-t
(--tries
) set to 0 (zero) which means it keeps on trying infinitely until the hell freezes over.And
-c
(--continue
) is to continue grabbing the half-downloaded file.
Downloading from sourceforge
Use the direct link it gives you (“Your download should begin shortly. If you are experiencing problems with the download please use this direct link.”).
So
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.6.5.tar.gz
instead of
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=wikipedia&filename=mediawiki-1.6.5.tar.gz&use_mirror=easynews