Thursday, June 21, 2012

An easy way to wget

An easy way to create a wget command for downloading on linux using Firefox and cliget addon for Firefox

Step 1: Install the cliget addon
Step 2: Go to the download page
Step 3: When you click on the link you will get the download dialog with the wget command at the bottom
Step 4: Click Copy, to copy the wget command
Step 5: Click Cancel
Step 6: Finally paste the wget command in linux and happy downloading
Optionally you can use nohup utility with wget which allows you to start the download and then continue running in the background after you log out from the shell
nohup <<wget command>> &
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I use this all the time to download large installation files from oracle directly on to the linux box which often only has command line access.

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