10 Useful Wget Command Examples In Linux

Wget Command Examples

wget exampleWe’ll show you 10 practical examples of the Wget Command. Wget is a free utility that can be used for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP which are considered as the most widely-used Internet protocols.

Its name comes from World Wide Web + get. Wget has many features which makes it a very easy task when it comes to retrieving large files, recursive downloads, multiple file downloads, or mirroring entire web or FTP sites.

Wget is non-interactive which gives great flexibility in using it. It can be easily called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals, etc. It can work in the background even if a user is not logged in. This allows you to start a file download and disconnect from the system, letting wget finish the work.

In this article, we will demonstrate the use of wget through some practical examples that you can use to accomplish some of the most common tasks such as downloading files or even mirroring entire websites.

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How to update the software on Linux

How to update the software on Linux

We’ll show you, How to update the software on Linux. Keeping your software up to date is one of the first and most important things you need to do after getting a VPS. Many critical vulnerabilities are patched by the time they become public so if you do not update your software frequently then your server is at a big risk of being exploited. In this tutorial, we will show you how to update the system software on your Linux VPS running CentOS or Ubuntu as an operating system. Updating software on Linux, is an easy task, just carefully follow the steps bellow.

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How to Configure OpenSSH on CentOS 7

how to configure openssh on centos 7

configuring openssh on centos 7This is a tutorial on How to Configure OpenSSH on CentOS 7. Secure Shell or SSH is a protocol which allows users to connect to a remote system using a client-server architecture. The login session is encrypted and very secure. Today we are going to show you how to configure and use OpenSSH on a Linux VPS using CentOS 7 as an operating system. Configuring OpenSSH on CentOS 7 is a fairly easy task if you carefully follow the tutorial below.

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Install RethinkDB on Ubuntu

Install RethinkDB on Ubuntu

We’ll show you, how to install Install RethinkDB on Ubuntu. RethinkDB is an open-source non-SQL database for realtime web applications. It pushes JSON to the web application in realtime and makes the JSON querying much simplified. Therefore, the web application becomes much more stable and responds much faster. It is very easy to install and run RethinkDB on a Linux VPS. Today we will show you how to do that on Ubuntu 14.04.

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