Save downloaded files to directory terminal

You need to quote or escape it. Generally, you have a shortcut to paste a quoted or escaped version of the string in the clipboard in your terminal. Be very careful when pasting stuffs inside a terminal. Show 2 more comments. I can never remember if it's a zero or O — Alexander Mills. I use axel and wget for downloading from terminal, axel is download accelerator syntax axel axel www.

Community Bot 1. Tachyons Tachyons Read this answer as well. Michael Tunnell Michael Tunnell 4, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. The default maximum depth is 5. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded.

See Directory-Based Limits, for more details. This option disables such behavior. This is useful for getting a fine-grained control over the directory where recursive retrieval will be saved. Use bookmarklet. Drag this link in bookmarks, then edit and paste this code:. However sometimes there are characters in the address that wget identifies as syntax errors.

I'm sure there is a fix for that, but as this question did not ask specifically about wget I thought I would offer an alternative for those people who will undoubtedly stumble upon this page looking for a quick fix with no learning curve required.

There are a few browser extensions that can do this, but most require installing download managers, which aren't always free, tend to be an eyesore, and use a lot of resources. Heres one that has none of these drawbacks:. You can choose to filter which file-types to download, or download the entire directory. For an up-to-date feature list and other information, visit the project page on the developer's blog:.

In order to make this work easier and to prevent unnecessary file creation, I am sharing my getwebfolder script, which is the first linux script I wrote for myself.

This script downloads all content of a web folder entered as parameter. When you try to download an open web folder by wget which contains more then one file, wget downloads a file named index. This file contains a file list of the web folder. My script converts file names written in index. As always, there are multiple ways to do the same thing in Linux. Downloading files from the terminal is no different. There are more such command line tools.

Terminal based web-browsers like elinks , w3m etc can also be used for downloading files in command line. Personally, for a simple download, I prefer using wget over curl. It is simpler and less confusing because you may have a difficult time figuring out why curl could not download a file in the expected format. Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir. It has many other features like resuming unfinished DLs among many others.

One of my absolute favorite features is that Aria2 can also be used to both download and upload Torrents as a peer and seeder! Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. What it will do is set the modified time of the file to the current time, effectively touching the file!

Similar to how mkdir can accept multiple paths, touch can do the same thing:. To take things a step further, you can use the blobbing tip from earlier and create new empty files in multiple directories with ease:.

Even one step further would be to create multiple files inside of multiple directories with additional blobbing:.