Wget a range of files

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Wget a series of files in order Ask Question. Asked 9 years ago. Active 7 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 11k times. Improve this question. Stall Stall 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Add a comment. Does it support ranges of sequential urls like [] in a url? I couldn't tell from the documentation. I also didn't see a flag like -w in wget to pause between requests but I saw an open feature request for it on github.

Any thoughts pLumo? No sorry, cannot tell, otherwise I would posted it as an answer ;- I just know that aria is a great tool that can do lots of good stuff. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Arne Brasseur Arne Brasseur 2 2 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. How can I download a number of files, using wget, the numbers start at and finishes at , I found this line but it freezes, wget example.

Oleg Mikheev I was unable to determine SH version. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Oleg Mikheev Oleg Mikheev Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Select the progress indicator you want to use. Legal indicators are " dot " and " bar ". The " bar " indicator is used by default. If the output is not a TTY, the " dot " bar is used by default. It traces the retrieval by printing dots on the screen, each dot representing a fixed amount of downloaded data. When using the dotted retrieval, you may also set the style by specifying the type as dot:style.

Different styles assign different meaning to one dot. With the " default " style each dot represents 1 K , there are ten dots in a cluster and 50 dots in a line. The " binary " style has a more "computer"-like orientation: 8 K dots, dots clusters and 48 dots per line which makes for K lines. The " mega " style is suitable for downloading very large files; each dot represents 6 4K retrieved, there are eight dots in a cluster, and 48 dots on each line so each line contains 3 M.

Note that you can set the default style using the progress command in. That setting may be overridden from the command line. The exception is that, when the output is not a TTY, the " dot " progress is favored over " bar ". Turn on time stamping. Output file has a timestamp matching remote copy; if file already exists locally, and remote file is not newer, no download occurs. Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server.

By default, when a file is downloaded, its timestamps are set to match those from the remote file, which allows the use of --timestamping on subsequent invocations of wget. However, it is sometimes useful to base the local file's timestamp on when it was downloaded; for that purpose, the --no-use-server-timestamps option is provided.

When invoked with this option, wget behaves as a web spider , which means it does not download the pages, only checks that they are there. For example, you can use wget to check your bookmarks: wget --spider --force-html -i bookmarks. Set the network timeout to seconds seconds. This option is equivalent to specifying --dns-timeout , --connect-timeout , and --read-timeout , all at the same time. When interacting with the network, wget can check for timeout and abort the operation if it takes too long.

This prevents anomalies like hanging reads and infinite connects. The only timeout enabled by default is a second read timeout. Setting a timeout to 0 disables it altogether. Unless you know what you are doing, it is best not to change the default timeout settings. All timeout-related options accept decimal values, and subsecond values. For example, 0. Subsecond timeouts are useful for checking server response times or for testing network latency. Set the DNS lookup timeout to seconds seconds.

DNS lookups fail if not completed in the specified time. By default, there is no timeout on DNS lookups, other than that implemented by system libraries. Set the connect timeout to seconds seconds. TCP connections that take longer to establish are aborted. By default, there is no connect timeout, other than that implemented by system libraries. Set the read and write timeout to seconds seconds. Reads fail if they take longer. The default value for read timeout is seconds.

Limit the download speed to amount bytes per second. The amount may be expressed in bytes , kilobytes with the k suffix , or megabytes with the m suffix.

This option is useful when, for whatever reason, you don't want wget to consume the entire available bandwidth. Note that wget implements the limiting by sleeping the appropriate amount of time after a network read that took less time than specified by the rate.

Eventually this strategy causes the TCP transfer to slow down to approximately the specified rate. However, it may take some time for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if limiting the rate doesn't work well with very small files. Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals. Use of this option is recommended, as it lightens the server load by making the requests less frequent.

Instead of in seconds, the time can be specified in minutes using the m suffix, in hours using h suffix, or in days using d suffix. Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the destination host is down, so that wget can wait long enough to reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry. The waiting interval specified by this function is influenced by --random-wait see below.

If you don't want wget to wait between every retrieval, but only between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option. By default, wget assumes a value of 10 seconds. Some websites may perform log analysis to identify retrieval programs such as wget by looking for statistically significant similarities in the time between requests. Specify download quota for automatic retrievals. The value can be specified in bytes default , kilobytes with k suffix , or megabytes with m suffix.

Note that quota never affects downloading a single file. The same goes even when several URLs are specified on the command-line. However, quota is respected when retrieving either recursively , or from an input file. Thus you may safely type wget -Q2m -i sites ; download is aborted when the quota is exceeded.

Setting quota to 0 or inf unlimits the download quota. Turn off caching of DNS lookups. Normally, wget remembers the addresses it looked up from DNS so it doesn't have to repeatedly contact the DNS server for the same often small set of addresses it retrieves. This cache exists in memory only; a new wget run contacts DNS again.

However, it was reported that in some situations it is not desirable to cache hostnames, even for the duration of a short-running application like wget. With this option wget issues a new DNS lookup more precisely, a new call to " gethostbyname " or " getaddrinfo " each time it makes a new connection. Please note that this option does not affect caching that might be performed by the resolving library or by an external caching layer, such as NSCD. Characters that are restricted by this option are escaped , i.

By default, wget escapes the characters that are not valid as part of file names on your operating system, and control characters that are unprintable. This option is useful for changing these defaults, either because you are downloading to a non-native partition, or because you want to disable escaping of the control characters. The modes are a comma-separated set of text values. The acceptable values are unix , windows , nocontrol , ascii , lowercase , and uppercase. The values unix and windows are mutually exclusive one overrides the other , as are lowercase and uppercase.

Those last are special cases, as they do not change the set of characters that would be escaped, but rather force local file paths to be converted either to lower or uppercase. This option is the default on Unix-like OSes.

Therefore, an URL that would be saved as www. This mode is the default on Windows. If you specify nocontrol , then the escaping of the control characters is also switched off. This option may make sense when you are downloading URLs whose names contain UTF-8 characters , on a system that can save and display filen ames in UTF-8 some possible byte values used in UTF-8 byte sequences fall in the range of values designated by wget as "controls".

The ascii mode is used to specify that any bytes whose values are outside the range of ASCII characters that is, greater than shall be escaped. This mode can be useful when saving file names whose encoding does not match the one used locally. Force connecting to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Conversely, with --inet6-only or -6 , wget only connects to IPv6 hosts and ignore A records and IPv4 addresses. Neither options should be needed normally.

Also, see " --prefer-family " option described below. These options can deliberately force the use of IPv4 or IPv6 address families on dual family systems, usually to aid debugging or deal with broken network configuration. Only one of --inet6-only and --inet4-only may be specified at the same time. Neither option is available in wget compiled without IPv6 support.

When given a choice of several addresses, connect to the addresses with specified address family first. The address order returned by DNS is used without change by default. This avoids spurious errors and connect attempts when accessing hosts that resolve to both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses from IPv4 networks.

For example, www. When the preferred family is " IPv4 ", the IPv4 address is used first; when the preferred family is " IPv6 ", the IPv6 address is used first; if the specified value is " none ", the address order returned by DNS is used without change.

Unlike -4 and -6 , this option doesn't inhibit access to any address family, it only changes the order in which the addresses are accessed. Also, note that the reordering performed by this option is stable; it doesn't affect order of addresses of the same family. That is, the relative order of all IPv4 addresses and of all IPv6 addresses remains intact in all cases.

Consider "connection refused" a transient error and try again.