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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:


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]