GNU Wget is a free software package that allows users to retrieve files using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, the most widely used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool; therefore, it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, and terminals without Xsupport. Some of its many features include resuming aborted downloads using REST and RANGE, using filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories, converting absolute links in downloaded documents to relative so downloaded documents can link to each other locally, and using local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be redownloaded when mirroring. This software runs on most UNIX-like operating systems, as well as Microsoft Windows.
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