UNIX confuses me

[DrömmenOmFrihet]

Background: I’m trying to mass-download collections from the Internet Archive for cold archival storage. I‘ve been able to follow their directions for doing this, which are here: https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget/

I’m totally lost after installing Cygwin. I don’t see an option to install wget for use with Cygwin and have momentarily given up.

 

[Grass Yes]

Background: I’m trying to mass-download collections from the Internet Archive for cold archival storage. I‘ve been able to follow their directions for doing this, which are here: https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget/

I’m totally lost after installing Cygwin. I don’t see an option to install wget for use with Cygwin and have momentarily given up.

Whoever wrote that tutorial has some wild ideas about what Cygwin is. Anyway, you don't have to install Cygwin to get wget. But if you want other unix tools for windows you can do that. I think 'curl' is installed by default now in windows, which can do everything wget can.

Anyway, I don't think wget is installed by default in Cygwin. Take a look here to see a clear description of how to add it:

WGET Command Not Working in Cygwin

I'm using Cygwin on Windows because some commands in Windows's CMD are not working but working on terminal of OS X and Linux. When I type the wget command and URL, it says command not found. Is th...

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[DrömmenOmFrihet]

Whoever wrote that tutorial has some wild ideas about what Cygwin is. Anyway, you don't have to install Cygwin to get wget. But if you want other unix tools for windows you can do that. I think 'curl' is installed by default now in windows, which can do everything wget can.

Anyway, I don't think wget is installed by default in Cygwin. Take a look here to see a clear description of how to add it:

WGET Command Not Working in Cygwin

I'm using Cygwin on Windows because some commands in Windows's CMD are not working but working on terminal of OS X and Linux. When I type the wget command and URL, it says command not found. Is th...

superuser.com

So, I’ve discovered that Windows Powershell does the exact same thing, but uses invoke-webrequest instead