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Mirroring Web sites with wget

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JW
Jack Wallen
Sep 2, 2009

“This resulted in a large number of people hammering the site to
obtain a local mirror. This minor panic reminded me of the
importance of a good site mirroring tool.

“The quickest and easiest way to mirror a remote Web site is to
use wget. Wget is similar to cURL (and I’ll be the first to
admit that I prefer cURL over wget), but wget has some really slick
and useful features that aren’t found in cURL, such as a
means to download an entire Web site for local viewing:”

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Jack Wallen

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