#Wget equivalent windows full

$ lynx -dump > linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples

We can use the lynx -dump command to output the webpage being accessed, instead of starting a fully interactive (test-based) browser in your Linux client. Thus, if we output from lynx, the output will be text, and not HTML, based.

#Wget equivalent windows full

However, unlike wget and curl, lynx is meant to be a full (text-based) browser. Lynx is another tool which we can use to retrieve the same page.

Instead, let’s use a tool which was natively enabled/programmed to dump pages into text format. We could parse the output by using sed or awk and some semi-complex regular expression, to reduce the output to text-only but doing so is somewhat complex and often not sufficiently error-proof. One challenge, when we want to process this/these file(s) further, is that the format is HTML based. We again confirm the contents: $ file linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples By default, curl will output to standard out ( stdout) and display the HTML page in your terminal! Thus, we instead redirect (using >) to the file linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples. This time we used curl to do the same as in our first example. Example 2: curl $ curl > linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples Great, file (the file classification utility) recognizes the downloaded file as HTML, and the head confirms that first 5 lines ( -n5) look like HTML code, and are text based. $ head -n5 linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples Linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines, with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators Let’s check out the file contents $ file linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples Here we downloaded an article from into a file, which by default is named the same as the name in the URL. Linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples 51.98K -.-KB/s in 0.005s Saving to: 'linux-complex-bash-one-liner-examples’ Using wget to retrieve a page is easy and straightforward: $ wget Once done, let’s get started! Example 1: wget