equivalent of "wget"?

Hi,

I'm SSHed in to a Mac OS X server (10.4). From the SSH terminal, I'd
like to download a file through HTTP. How can this be done. I cannot
find "wget" any where on the system.

Thanks, - Dave

On 2006-12-19, laredotornado@zipmail.com <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:

> I'm SSHed in to a Mac OS X server (10.4). From the SSH terminal, I'd
> like to download a file through HTTP. How can this be done. I cannot
> find "wget" any where on the system.

use "curl"

I often do "curl -I URL" to see the HTTP headers sent by the server
but it's main function is to pull down files. There are loads of
options - "man curl". Not sure if there are any major differences
between wget and curl.

Ian

--
Ian Gregory
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/

Ian Gregory <foo@bar.invalid> wrote:

> On 2006-12-19, laredotornado@zipmail.com <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm SSHed in to a Mac OS X server (10.4). From the SSH terminal, I'd
> > like to download a file through HTTP. How can this be done. I cannot
> > find "wget" any where on the system.
>
> use "curl"

Or, of course, you can install wget from any of several sources. I've
got it on this machine (via fink). It might be quicker/simpler to just
use curl if it isn't your machine or for any of several other reasons.
But if you particularly want wget, it can easily be installed, even
though it doesn't come as a default part of the OS.

--
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email: my first.last at org.domain| experience comes from bad judgment.
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In article <4ur5j3F19k98vU2@mid.individual.net>,
Ian Gregory <foo@bar.invalid> wrote:

> On 2006-12-19, laredotornado@zipmail.com <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm SSHed in to a Mac OS X server (10.4). From the SSH terminal, I'd
> > like to download a file through HTTP. How can this be done. I cannot
> > find "wget" any where on the system.
>
> use "curl"
>
> I often do "curl -I URL" to see the HTTP headers sent by the server
> but it's main function is to pull down files. There are loads of
> options - "man curl". Not sure if there are any major differences
> between wget and curl.


The licence.

curl is MIT/X derived <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html>
whereas wget uses the GNU General Public License.

curl is being actively developed <http://curl.haxx.se/> and has many
more features than wget. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget#Criticisms_of_Wget> for some
criticisms of wget.

In article <1166565107.817918.295480@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>,
laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

> I'm SSHed in to a Mac OS X server (10.4). From the SSH terminal, I'd
> like to download a file through HTTP. How can this be done. I cannot
> find "wget" any where on the system.

Macx OS X includes "curl", not wget.

--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>

Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"

Michael Newbery wrote:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget#Criticisms_of_Wget> for some
> criticisms of wget.

It does what I want, so I've no motivation to change.
To each his own.

--
Wes Groleau

Nobody believes a theoretical analysis -- except the guy who did it.
Everybody believes an experimental analysis -- except the guy who
did it.
-- Unknown

In article <xh1ih.6550$HT5.115@trnddc02>,
Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:

> Michael Newbery wrote:
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget#Criticisms_of_Wget> for some
> > criticisms of wget.
>
> It does what I want, so I've no motivation to change.
> To each his own.

Yup. For a simple fetch of an http url, either is fine, and wget is
rather more common. However, curl is included in Mac OS X and wget is
not (at least in 10.4. I think it was in earlier releases). I wondered
about this myself and went looking, to discover that whatever functional
differences there might be, the greater part of arguments seem to
revolve around licence zealotry.

One might wonder why Mac OS X includes curl but *not* wget.