Download single file

Single file can be downloaded with following syntax. By default this file is saved in the current directory.

Syntax:

Example:

wget https://www.google.com/doodles/gerardus-mercators-503rd-birthday

Look at the above snapshot, it display a progress bar showing the downloading status.

Starting from the left progress bar indicates,

• download completion in percentage (for e.g. 87%)
• total amount of bytes downloaded so far (for e.g. 8,15,947 bytes)
• current download speed (for e.g. 207K/s)
• remaining time to download (for e.g. eta 1s)

Look at the above snapshot, it display a complete downloaded process bar (with 100% completion percentage).