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Wget Command

  What is Wget?                     Wget is a simple Linux/Unix command-line utility for downloading the contents, and files from the web. Wget will download the resource from the URL which is specified in the command. With the help of wget, we can download files using HTTP, and HTTPS. We can also download multiple files, resume downloads, recursive downloads, downloads in the background, and different options in the wget command. In this article, let’s see how to install and, use this command with examples. Installing Wget The wget is pre-installed on most of the Linux distros. To verify whether the package is installed, open your terminal type wget  and press enter. You will get a result of   wget: missing URL . If the wget package is not installed it will print wget command not found. Installation on Ubuntu and Debian                sudo apt install ...