====== Ubuntu - wget - Download Single File with wget ====== The following example downloads a single file from internet and stores in the current directory. wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2 While downloading it will show a progress bar with the following information: * %age of download completion (for e.g. 31% as shown below) * Total amount of bytes downloaded so far (for e.g. 1,213,592 bytes as shown below) * Current download speed (for e.g. 68.2K/s as shown below) * Remaining time to download (for e.g. eta 34 seconds as shown below) ---- ===== Download in progress ===== wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2 Displays: Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2.1' 31% [=================> 1,213,592 68.2K/s eta 34s ---- ===== Download completed ===== wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2 Displays: Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2' 100%[======================>] 3,852,374 76.8K/s in 55s 2009-09-25 11:15:30 (68.7 KB/s) - `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2' saved [3852374/3852374]