You may not have a download limit but you might have a slow internet connection. To download files without devouring all the available bandwidth on your connection, specify a limit that sets a maximum download rate. The above command limits the download rate to 20 kilobytes per second. Specify the amount in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes. Use wget -c to continue a download where you had left off—a tool useful, for example, with dropped connections.
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Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. We will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet. See the image below for better understanding:. Wget also allows users to download multiple files from different URLs. This can easily be done by the following command:. Once again, we can show this using an example.
We will be downloading two HTML files from two different websites. For better understanding, please look at the image below:. Here filename refers to the name that you want to address the file as. Using this, we can also change the type of the file. This is shown in the image below:. Wget also allows users to recursively download their files which is basically downloading all the files from the website under a single directory.
For more information regarding Wget, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Wget commands that appear to be available:. Curl is another command line tool that can be used to download files from the internet. Unlike Wget, which is command line only, features of Curl are powered by libcurl which is a cross-platform URL transfer library.
Curl not only allows downloading of files but can also be used for uploading and exchanging of requests with servers. However, Curl does not support recursive downloads which Wget offers. Similarly, like Wget, Curl comes pre-installed with most of the Linux Distributions. This can simply be checked by running the following command:.
Just like Wget, Curl has multiple features incorporated inside of it. The most basic is its ability to allow users to download files from a single URL from the internet. For better understanding, we will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet just like in the case of Wget. Curl also allows users to change the filename and the type of the file. This can be done by the following command:. In the image above, we took a png file originally named pancake1.
Just like in the case of Wget, Curl allows users to download multiple files using a number of URLs from the internet. For our example, we will use curl to download a jpg file and a png file from the internet. Results are shown in the image below:.
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