Hello beautiful peoples!
Alright! It’s time to level up your command line skills! Now that you’ve unlocked the terminal on macOS and installed Homebrew, it’s time to add your first powerhouse tool: wget, the undisputed king of downloads.
What is wget?
It’s a command-line utility for downloading files from the internet. Whether you’re grabbing a single file, resuming a download, or mirroring an entire website, wget is your go-to tool… or at least it should be. No need for fancy download managers – this one runs right from your terminal.
Why is it useful?
• If your unreliable internet connection cuts out mid-download, wget can resume where it left off.
• Need an offline copy of a webpage? wget can clone an entire site for local viewing.
• You can schedule downloads, pull multiple files at once, and avoid clicking through endless web pages.
Are you ready to install wget in Your Mac’s terminal? Go on then!
Start by opening a terminal window and pasting in this command:
brew install wget
Confirm it with Enter 
. Wait for the command to run its course.
There You go… Its that easy…
Test Your newly installed command-line download manager. Lets grab a Test.txt file from my cdn…
Paste this command into terminal and confirm it with Enter :
wget -c https://files.andrzej.langow.ski/Test.txt
Display the content of the Test.txt file by running this command. Confirm it with Enter :
cat Test.txtWay to go! You’ve just taken a huge step in mastering the command line. Wget is officially installed, your first download is complete, and as a bonus, you’ve unlocked the power of the cat command to display content of text files right in the terminal.
This is how the journey begins – learning one tool at a time until the terminal feels like second nature. Keep going, and soon you’ll have an arsenal of powerful commands at your fingertips!
I hope this helps!
Catch you on the flip side,
AndrzejL
