General
wget -q -O - http://pichove.org/somefile.txt
... displays the contents of somefile.txt to stdout
wget -q -S -O - http://pichove.org
... displays headers as well
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wget --http-user sgs --ask-password https://pichove.org/secret-resource.tar.gz
... access resource using BASE auth
Argument description
- --dns-servers=<IP1,IP2...> - assigns a DNS server(s) to use instead of the default one
- --dns-timeout=<seconds> - sets the DNS lookup timeout to seconds
- -O <file or - stdout> --output-document=<file or - stdout>
- -q --quiet - quiet
- -S, --server-response - prints the headers sent by HTTP servers and responses sent by FTP servers
- -T , --timeout=<seconds> - sets the network timeout to seconds
- -t <number>, --tries=<number> - sets number of tries to number