wget for Mac OS X Leopard

qsf July 30, 2008 at 11:25 p.m.

Most people know the simple use of wget: wget [url] to download whatever's at [url] But Jeff Veen's post gives a nice example of just how powerful it can be... http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000573.html

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Phil Miesle July 31, 2008 at 8:51 a.m.

It does not work on 10.4.11. Error message recieved is: --- $ wget dyld: Symbol not found: _fnmatch$UNIX2003 Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib Trace/BPT trap --- Guess I'll have to run this over on my Leopard machine...

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Brian July 31, 2008 at 4:29 p.m.

Thanks for the download. (I suppose the traffic will be high today because there are all kinds of links to your site going on right now.)

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liquidparallax August 3, 2008 at 9:38 p.m.

Newb alert! Everything installed OK, but I can't seem to find a way to create an executable script to call wget commands in mac. I could do a batch script for wget in windows, but I'm blind on my new mac. I tried to have Automator do this but no luck: do shell script "wget htttp://thisismydesiredurl.com" Terminal responds to manually typing in "wget htttp://thisismydesiredurl.com", but I am in search of a way to launch the command via GUI/Finder as AppleScript or clickable file. What am I missing?

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gregory August 5, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.

Awesome! thanks for porting this over to mac

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Tedi August 5, 2008 at 9:40 p.m.

Great job! thanks :)

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Nazmul Hassan August 8, 2008 at 3:04 p.m.

Thanks!

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Snoop1990 August 23, 2008 at 5:27 p.m.

Thank you for sharing this distribution of the wget code for mac os X Regards Snoop1990

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Nick Sargeant August 30, 2008 at 6:57 p.m.

Have the same issue with Tiger - dyld: Symbol not found: _fnmatch$UNIX2003 Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib for those of us who aren't going to move to Leopard in the very near .. (might do just to get wget working hah!) would it be possible to provide a patch?

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qsf August 31, 2008 at 4:13 p.m.

Nick - a quick note - my previous binary will work fine on all versions of Mac OS X - see the link to 'the original version' above. I'm afraid I can't easily build an up-to-date version for older versions of OS X at present, but I'll try and get my hand on an older machine, or a disk on which I can install an older version, at some point!

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Adam September 5, 2008 at 2:25 p.m.

$>man curl

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John September 10, 2008 at 7:05 p.m.

Great!!! Thank you so very much!

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Enrio September 15, 2008 at 8:02 p.m.

Thanks, works great. Just what I need.

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lvyile September 18, 2008 at 7:28 p.m.

thx, it's just ok on 10.5.5!!!

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Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ September 19, 2008 at 6:04 p.m.

Thanks very much, i can't find wget like powerful download utility for macosx. There are too many stupid only-interface tool, speeddownload, leech. all stupid. i need just this : wget -c -t 0 --http-user=myuser --http-passwd=mypass -i rapidshare_download_links.txt

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Matthew Ratzloff September 22, 2008 at 11:55 p.m.

Nice! Works perfectly.

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Kripto September 24, 2008 at 6:06 p.m.

Great job! I simply made a /usr/local/etc dir, moved the binary to /usr/bin, moved the man page to /usr/share/man/man1/ and moved the conf file to /usr/local/etc/ Worked like a charm on 10.5.5

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moamahi October 1, 2008 at 1:38 p.m.

Hi, thank you very much. It works on 10.5.5 Bye moamahi

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BjÃ¶rn October 6, 2008 at 2:42 p.m.

Thx man worked great on 10.5.5!

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Pablo Miranda October 8, 2008 at 5:11 p.m.

Nice! just works fine, and wget is very usefull

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André Elias October 30, 2008 at 6:07 p.m.

Thanks, you saved my day with this latest port! :-) PS: Works fine with 10.5.5!

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yile November 6, 2008 at 3:09 p.m.

Thanks again!!! :)

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John November 27, 2008 at 3:06 p.m.

Thanks very much, appreciate it.

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grl December 18, 2008 at 4:37 p.m.

Thanks for this. Why does Apple make simple stuff some complicated?

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ping December 24, 2008 at 10:45 p.m.

> Why does Apple make simple stuff some complicated? Because "You don't need this" (c) Apple

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Andrea December 29, 2008 at 3:01 p.m.

This is perfect! Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

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Josh January 4, 2009 at 6:56 a.m.

Thanks for providing this! I'm trying to compile wget 1.11.4 on OS X 10.5.6 (I have XCode/Developer tools installed.) './configure' goes fine, but 'make' dies with this error: make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. cd windows && make CC='gcc' CPPFLAGS='' DEFS='-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=\"/usr/etc/wgetrc\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"' CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall' LDFLAGS='' LIBS='-ldl /usr/lib/libssl.dylib /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib ' DESTDIR='' prefix='/usr' exec_prefix='/usr' bindir='/usr/bin' infodir='/usr/share/info' mandir='/usr/share/man' manext='1' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Any idea why? Thanks in advance!

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qsf January 4, 2009 at 8:53 a.m.

Josh - that doesn't look like an error - more that there's just nothing to be done in that directory, either because it's already built there or because the Makefile in that directory doesn't specify any rules to be built. I note that it's a directory called 'windows'! Are you sure it didn't complete successfully leaving the resulting binaries in another directory? Don't have the makefile here to look at, I'm afraid.

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Josh January 4, 2009 at 6:29 p.m.

D'oh! You're right! The compiled wget binary was in ./src. I didn't even notice the directory name of "windows" in the message I pasted here! I had assumed the build was breaking because it spent an extremely short time compiling and then spat out a whole bunch of 'make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.' messages for various directories. The combination of short compile time and lots of notifications made me think something was wrong. Thanks for steering me in the right direction! Josh

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Gerald January 15, 2009 at 10:01 p.m.

Hi, I'm really new to Macs - so hopefully am not embarrassing myself with this question! I was able to easily find and download the wget binary for Mac OS X 10.5. I'm stuck on this though - The Read Me file says this: ——————————————————————————————— Copy: wget into /usr/local/bin wget.1 into /usr/local/man/man1 wgetrc into /usr/local/etc You may need to create those directories if they don't already exist, and add /usr/local/bin to your PATH if it isn't already there. If you'd rather not modify your PATH you can: * call wget explicitly using /usr/local/bin/wget * put it somewhere that is on your PATH, like /usr/bin. This binary will, however, look for the system-wide configuration file wgetrc in /usr/local/etc, so it's a good idea to have that in place if you can. ——————————————————————————————— When I tried to create the directory structure suggested above by going to the /usr directory and entering > mkdir local I got a ""Permission Denied"" message When I go up a level and try to give myself permssions (I'm logged in as an administrator fyi) and type > chmod 777 usr I also get a ""Permission Denied"" message When I try the alternate suggestion above and just go to the directory where the files were downloaded to and try to move them to the user directory by typing: > move w* /usr/bin I also get a ""Permission Denied"" message Do you have any suggestions for helping me get unstuck? For example how do I change directory permissions on a Mac? – or any other suggestions? Thanks! Gerald

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qsf January 16, 2009 at 11:39 p.m.

Gerald - You're doing the right things except that the /usr directory can only be modified by somebody with root (administrator) privileges. If you're doing it at the command line, you need to prefix your commands with 'sudo' (which means 'do as superuser'). So you really want sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1 sudo cp wget /usr/local/bin sudo cp wget.1 /usr/local/man/man1 sudo cp wgetrc /usr/local/etc The first 'sudo' will prompt you for your password, which will confirm that it really is you, the administrative user, sitting at the keyboard. Hope this helps! Quentin

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Kumar February 11, 2009 at 6:33 p.m.

Handy tool, not sure why this is not part of standard OS X release.

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Matt Doar February 13, 2009 at 4:53 p.m.

Hi Quentin, Thanks, you're always a useful place to look for this kind of thing. Hope this finds you and the family well. ~Matt

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=amante February 15, 2009 at 1:57 p.m.

Similiar to 10.4.1 users, I'm using 10.3.9 still -- dyld: /usr/local/bin/wget Undefined symbols: /usr/local/bin/wget undefined reference to ___stderrp expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/local/bin/wget undefined reference to ___stdinp expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/local/bin/wget undefined reference to ___stdoutp expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib Trace/BPT trap

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Bill February 16, 2009 at 4:05 a.m.

Thank you for this.

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Evan Anderson March 11, 2009 at 4:19 p.m.

I was having issues with the man page - Kripto's solution worked like a charm: "moved the binary to /usr/bin, moved the man page to /usr/share/man/man1/ and moved the conf file to /usr/local/etc/" Great little utility.

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Anne March 12, 2009 at 5:17 p.m.

Thanks a bunch!! Like others, had to move the man page to /usr/share/man/man1. Was a little surprised to find that my Mac had no wget, sigh...

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Chris March 12, 2009 at 9:19 p.m.

AWESOME!!! THANKS!!

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Angelo Black March 15, 2009 at 10:38 a.m.

Thank you! Been using wget on Linux for years. Now getting comfortable with Leopard. Your instructions in README worked perfectly.

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Ron March 27, 2009 at 3:25 p.m.

>> Why does Apple make simple stuff some complicated? > > Because ""You don't need this"" (c) Apple Because for most here, "curl" is all they'll need. http://thatha.org/blog/wget-for-mac-os-x/

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Churk April 2, 2009 at 1:29 p.m.

Hey, this is awesome, I am so used to Linux, and thought MAC is built on UNIX I should be easily familiar with it, not realizing 1/2 of the functionality of UNIX is not available. But this makes biting the bullet less painful. Thank a bunch.

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rob May 6, 2009 at 1:29 a.m.

thank you mr. quentin! for those with megaupload premium , I use this command wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: user=5ea034xxxxxxxxxxxxx" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1" -i /Users/rob/Downloads/mu-list.txt -o /Users/rob/Downloads/mu-log.txt -P /Users/rob/Downloads/ -b you can check your megaupload cookie, login into your account using firefox -i is a plain txt link list, -o logs download progress, -P is my files repository and -b stands for background

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Laurei May 14, 2009 at 5:05 a.m.

Thanks you are brilliant!

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ivanvx May 20, 2009 at 5:20 p.m.

Thanks

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Eric May 31, 2009 at 1:54 p.m.

Works in 10.5.2

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Israel D. Canasa June 4, 2009 at 5:26 a.m.

Perhaps I missed it, but I don't see a reason why you should use this when wget is available through the Mac OS X Ports package. Installing it is as simple as "port install wget".

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qsf June 4, 2009 at 10:21 a.m.

Israel - I use Ports too, but a lot of people don't, and if you just want wget, this saves you installing all that other stuff, changing your path, etc. That's the only reason, really. Quentin [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value.

Jason June 11, 2009 at 3:52 p.m.

Nice it works like a charm. Thanks a bunch.

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BaRoN June 22, 2009 at 7:19 p.m.

Thanks a lot for this binary, works fine on 10.5.7. I'd like to not download macports or smth to make wget working, and this binary is perfect for this :)

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bakes.wordpress.com/ June 23, 2009 at 8:19 a.m.

Works fine on 10.5.2

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dave k July 1, 2009 at 2:23 a.m.

Or just call me by my physical state: frontallabotomy... I seem to have installed wget OK: files are where they should be. I ran the line wget http://www.epscor.hawaii.edu/ but all I got was the one index file and (of course) I was expecting the entire site. Any suggestions? Thanks, dk

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qsf July 4, 2009 at 11:40 p.m.

dave k - have a look at the man page... you probably need the -r and -l options....

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wazzucoug July 11, 2009 at 6:09 a.m.

Works great on 10.5.7 wget -> /usr/bin wgetrc -> /usr/local/etc wget.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1

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Anirban July 31, 2009 at 2:23 p.m.

Thanks. It works on 10.5.3.

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pat August 6, 2009 at 3:43 p.m.

Thank you for taking the time to build this!! A year later, this helped me out today - appreciated!

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Oskar Hermansson August 30, 2009 at 7:50 p.m.

Works on 10.5.8. Thanks!

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Ropsu September 5, 2009 at 11:11 a.m.

Exellent - thanks, works great! OS X 10.5.8 and with readme.txt -suggestions (created manually all folders) wget into /usr/local/bin wget.1 into /usr/local/man/man1 wgetrc into /usr/local/etc

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Robbinevanston September 6, 2009 at 4:57 p.m.

Great work - this is exactly what I needed, works great in OS X 10.6. Thank you!

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Steve September 11, 2009 at 1:05 a.m.

Just installed on my Snow Leopard machine sudo cp wget /usr/local/bin/ sudo cp wget.1 /usr/local/man/man1/ sudo cp wgetrc /usr/local/etc quit then re started terminal no probs what so ever! Thanks so much ! :)

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Smokey September 13, 2009 at 5:07 p.m.

Works great in 10.6, thanks!

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perkiset September 14, 2009 at 9:01 p.m.

Thanks mate, well done. Concur, works perfectly in 10.6.1

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Matthew Cornell September 23, 2009 at 2:36 p.m.

Much obliged!

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K. Rande September 29, 2009 at 7:42 p.m.

Minor update to what others have posted above: In order to make the wget man page available under Snow Leopard, the wget.1 man file must be located at /usr/local/share/man/man1. Therefore, I used the following when installing on Mac OS X 10.6.1: sudo cp wget /usr/local/bin/ sudo cp wget.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1 sudo cp wgetrc /usr/local/etc Both wget itself and its man page now work correctly.

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Ariel Rivera November 11, 2009 at 5:16 p.m.

Way to go, man !. Just had a need to use it on my mac, it wasn't there, of course, then google it, found your page, downloaded it, installed it, used it, commenting on your website, darn !.... 3 mins for all that.... (y)

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Jonathan Flusser November 18, 2009 at 5:32 a.m.

Works awesome on 10.6.2 :)

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Dave All November 18, 2009 at 3:34 p.m.

Thanx! Nice AddWork :)

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Mark A November 24, 2009 at 11:27 p.m.

Dead Handy, Thanks!

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rimian December 10, 2009 at 5:29 a.m.

Stick an alias to curl in your .profile alias wget='curl -O'

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Phil January 6, 2010 at 8:39 a.m.

Cheers! This is perfect!

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Paul February 3, 2010 at 1:33 p.m.

Thank you! I needed a new binary because I moved from PPC to intel. Works fine on 10.6.2

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safwan February 10, 2010 at 2:57 a.m.

i successfully install it on 10.5.8

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1ka3 February 22, 2010 at 12:13 a.m.

Thank you from Russian!

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richie March 26, 2010 at 5:53 a.m.

Thanks. Works great in Macbook Pro

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Jason March 28, 2010 at 4:19 p.m.

Perfect. Thanks so much for this!!

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Jozef Sevcik April 3, 2010 at 11:36 a.m.

Works great, thanks !

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ivan April 23, 2010 at 10:14 a.m.

Thank you!

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Ted Pennings May 9, 2010 at 10:33 p.m.

Thanks! Still works with Snow Leopard (10.6.3)

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abiheiri July 31, 2010 at 5:19 a.m.

on 10.6.x I had to copy wget.1 to /usr/share/man/man1/

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Wolfos August 31, 2010 at 3:29 p.m.

Funny, this is actually an alias for the build in application curl, but I always found wget easier.

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Tanner Wiliamson October 6, 2010 at 8:44 p.m.

Thanks for the good compiled files. I have tested it on OS X 10.6.4 and found it to be good. I had to manually make the man page directories first.

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DK October 27, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.

Thanks man!

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wplittle December 24, 2010 at 6:07 p.m.

Thanks man! Works great, you just saved me a ton of time!

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eds January 3, 2011 at 1:25 p.m.

if you happen to be using tex as part of the texlive distro, wget is on your machine in the installer directory tree.

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david January 26, 2011 at 4:56 p.m.

great tip...

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Jeff February 15, 2011 at 9:33 a.m.

TYVM! :)

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jordan March 18, 2011 at 10:40 a.m.

hey guys, maybe this is a dumb question but when i sudo cp the files, it says there's no such file or directory meaning it's not finding wget, wget.1, wgetrc.... any help is appreciated?..

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qsf March 19, 2011 at 8:48 a.m.

Jordan - Assuming you downloaded and unzipped the file, you'll need to change into the resulting directory (folder). After starting up the Terminal, you'll need something like: cd Downloads/wget There's a slightly counter-intuitive trick you can use if you don't know how to specify the location of the folder: type 'cd ' into the Terminal and then drag and drop the folder onto the Terminal window and you should get the full pathname - something like cd /Users/Jordan/Downloads/wget The next issue might be that you don't actually have the directories into which you're trying to copy the files. You can do: sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc and so forth to create the directories. The '-p' means 'Create it if it doesn't already exist'.

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shortably March 26, 2011 at 5:38 p.m.

thanks so much!

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leo April 3, 2011 at 4:39 p.m.

Still usefull three years after! I am unable to download Xcode and to use macports so this port is saving my life! It works under OS X 10.5.8 thanks!

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Charles July 18, 2011 at 6:30 a.m.

Still works with 10.6.8 Thanks so much!

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ddh August 24, 2011 at 11:41 p.m.

I know it's been a while since you released your build of wget, but I just want to verify that you did NOT build it with SSL (ie, for use with https websites) support. When I have attempted to use it for sites using https with SSL certs, ./wget --secure-protocol=auto --no-check-certificate https://torquess.com/software/listing.pdf Fails with: Resolving torquess.com... Connecting to torquess.com||:443... connected. WARNING: cannot verify torquess.com's certificate, issued by `/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)05/CN=VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-08-24 16:35:16 ERROR 404: Not Found. Is my assumption correct, or am I misinterpreting the results?

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ddh August 25, 2011 at 12:26 a.m.

Never mind. I've verified that you have compiled with SSL. Damn windoze sites!

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Jonny September 13, 2011 at 5:33 a.m.

Just work s on 10.6.8 Thanks!

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brian k2 October 4, 2011 at 12:07 p.m.

Thank you so much. Wonderful.

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Fezman92 January 24, 2012 at 9:14 p.m.

I have read the README file and I still have no clue how to do this. I have version 10.6.8. Thanks.

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S April 4, 2012 at 8:54 p.m.

Still works on Lion as of 2012!

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kog May 22, 2012 at 10:22 p.m.

Thanks so much. Worked on osx 10.6.8. Much appreciated :)

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Alex De Lara August 7, 2012 at 4:54 a.m.

Thanks a lot. Seems to be working fine on OSX Lion (10.7.4).

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Sebas March 14, 2013 at 3:33 p.m.

Hi: Just passing by to thank you and comment that it works for MacOS X 10.5.8.

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Pete Williams April 2, 2013 at 9:25 p.m.

Thanks a lot - works a treat on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

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Dan June 5, 2013 at 12:13 a.m.

This was very useful and worked smoothly on my iMac running OS X 10.7.5. Thanks!

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Fergus Ruston June 18, 2015 at 7:41 p.m.

Those on OS X Yosemite will probably be better off installing wget with Homebrew if they have it.

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shgy December 15, 2015 at 11:26 a.m.

That is very useful, Thanks!!!

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Beau Cox November 7, 2016 at 8:48 p.m.

Amazing! Still works for macOS Sierra 10.12.1. Thanks.

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Serena July 8, 2019 at 5:39 p.m.

Just thought I'd drop a line to say that this still works for macOS Mojave. Thanks!

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qsf July 8, 2019 at 7:54 p.m.

Thanks, Serena!

Hamz November 23, 2024 at 10:28 p.m.

I really appreciate how you went beyond just providing the wget binary by bundling the man page, configuration file, and even a helpful README. It's the little details like these that make a world of difference, especially for those of us who might not be as familiar with compiling or configuring tools from scratch.

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