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GNU Wget
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======== (Temporary) home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
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GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World
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Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet
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protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the
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background, after having logged off.
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The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is
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supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home
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pages, or traverse a site like a WWW robot (Wget understands
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/robots.txt).
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Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping
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getting the document until it is fully retrieved. Re-getting files
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from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that
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support it. Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of
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directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Both HTTP and FTP
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retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file
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has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new
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version if it has.
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Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
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up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. If you are behind a
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firewall that requires the use of a socks style gateway, you can get
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the socks library and compile wget with support for socks.
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Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
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options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to
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install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
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site settings.
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Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many
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other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
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additional software (like perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is
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easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is
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described in the INSTALL file.
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Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the
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master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example,
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Wget 1.7.1 is at:
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<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.7.1.tar.gz>.
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Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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Wget has a mailing list at <wget@sunsite.dk>. To subscribe, mail to
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<wget-subscribe@sunsite.dk>. Wget's home page is temporarily at
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<URL:http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is being migrated to
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<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be its permanent
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home.
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MAINTAINERS: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
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Dan Harkless <wget@harkless.org>
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Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file
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AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a
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detailed listing of all contributions.
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Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software
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Foundation, Inc.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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