The ability to download content from the world wide web (the internet) and store it locally on your system is an important feature to have. The wget(Web get) command line utility is a freely available package which can be used to retrieve files from the web using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. In addition to the mentioned protocols, wget can also be used to download files through HTTP proxies. This is similar to cURL command which we covered recently.
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