While that is all that you need to know to use wget for downloading files, there are many other commands that’ll enable you to control its usage and you can access them within your terminal in wget’s man page or online. r (or -recursive) and -np (or -no-parent) tells wget to follow links within the directory that you’ve specified. Many years ago (2012-2014) I found that the Mac crontab command was deprecated on macOS, and the Apple documentation encouraged you to use their launchd facility. The -e robots=off flag tells wget to ignore restrictions in the robots.txt file which is good because it prevents abridged downloads. I keep trying to edit my Mac crontab file, but my Mac wont save my crontab changes, or run my program. The shell has a bunch of files it executes at startup, some in the users home directory. Here are some of the basics for setting things up. Downloading a directory # wget -e robots=off -r -np On Macs, the default shell is the zsh, or Z shell. the wget command, -X to indicate the file path (unless you want to save the downloaded content to your current working directory), and the public link. Downloading a single file # wget -X path/to/py # brew install wgetĪs long as a file or directory’s URL is publicly accessible, you can download it and files can be downloaded singly or recursively when downloading directories. Next, install wget command-line download client. Install Homebrew using the following command, it will also install Xcode’s command line tools if they aren’t already installed: # /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL )" Don’t worry if you don’t have it installed, I’ve got you covered: There are alternatives like Fink and MacPorts but I prefer using Homebrew.
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