Author: Surendra Anne

Wget(Website get) is a Linux command line tool to download any file which is available through a network which has a hostname or IP address. With wget command we can download from an FTP or HTTP site as this supports many protocols like FTP, HTTP, https, ftps etc. By default wget command downloads files to the present working directory where you execute the command. This is a bit annoying as we have to move the downloaded file to a specific folder or we have to go the directory where you want that file downloaded and use wget command. In this post, we will see how to download to a specific location in the system. wget command syntax: wget <URL> To get downloaded file to a specific directory we should use -P or –directory-prefix=prefix. From wget man pages.        -P prefix        --directory-prefix=prefix            Set directory prefix to prefix.  The directory prefix is the directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved to,            i.e. the top of the retrieval tree.  The default is . (the current directory). The syntax for downloading to a specific directory. wget -P <path> <URL> Example: wget -P /opt/mykernel/ https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.16.13.tar.xz Output: wget -P /opt/mykernel/ https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.16.13.tar.xz --2018-06-02 17:56:52--  https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.16.13.tar.xz Resolving cdn.kernel.org... 151.101.1.176, 151.101.65.176, 151.101.129.176, ... Connecting to cdn.kernel.org|151.101.1.176|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response......