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On 9/24/2024 5:21 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:28:47 -0400, DFS wrote:
> 
>> But seriously, lately I use Linux (Ubuntu WSL) to download computer
>> science college course materials using wget.
> 
> Doesn’t Dimdows PowerShell have a built-in “wget” command? I hear it
> almost works, too.
> 
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/your_wget_is_broken_and_should_die_powershellers_tell_microsoft/>


PowerShell wget is an alias to Invoke-WebRequest.  In my quick testing, 
using wget in PowerShell was a hassle.


In WSL, on the other hand:

$ sudo apt install wget
$ mkdir Cornell
$ cd Cornell
$ mkdir ECE3150  (optional)
$ cd ECE3150     (optional)
$ wget -r -np https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/ece315/

Total time to install wget, make 2 folders, and download the entire 
website - 79 files - was well under 2 minutes.

Nice!  wget is great.  The AUTHORS file lists 311 contributors!


There's a wget binary for Windows, last updated in 2009.  I just tried 
it using the same command and it worked OK, but pulled down a little 
more than the 79 files.  It got one file each from 5 other courses on 
that domain.