tjtoml
March 9th, 2009, 01:58 PM
I find myself using wget a lot to grab images and videos and the like quite a lot. I'm sure there are some pretty neat graphical ways to do this but I like using the command line, so I put together this alias to simplify the process a bit.
This uses xclip to grab the text on your clipboard, so if you don't have it, grab it.
$sudo apt-get install xclip
same with wget, though I'm fairly sure it comes in the default package list, so I can't imaging why you wouldn't have it.
$sudo apt-get install wget
now for the alias:
$cd ~/
$gedit .bashrc
and add the line
alias download='wget -c $(xclip -o)'
Save and exit. From now on when you open up a bash shell and have a url on your clipboard that you want to download, just type
$download
and off you go.
Obviously, you can tweak the wget options to your heart's delight.
This uses xclip to grab the text on your clipboard, so if you don't have it, grab it.
$sudo apt-get install xclip
same with wget, though I'm fairly sure it comes in the default package list, so I can't imaging why you wouldn't have it.
$sudo apt-get install wget
now for the alias:
$cd ~/
$gedit .bashrc
and add the line
alias download='wget -c $(xclip -o)'
Save and exit. From now on when you open up a bash shell and have a url on your clipboard that you want to download, just type
$download
and off you go.
Obviously, you can tweak the wget options to your heart's delight.