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====== Ubuntu - wget - Download Single File with wget ======

The following example downloads a single file from internet and stores in the current directory.

<code bash>
wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
</code>

While downloading it will show a progress bar with the following information:


  * %age of download completion (for e.g. 31% as shown below)
  * Total amount of bytes downloaded so far (for e.g. 1,213,592 bytes as shown below)
  * Current download speed (for e.g. 68.2K/s as shown below)
  * Remaining time to download (for e.g. eta 34 seconds as shown below)

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===== Download in progress =====

<code bash>
wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
</code>

Displays:

<code>
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2.1'

31% [=================> 1,213,592   68.2K/s  eta 34s
</code>

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===== Download completed =====

<code bash>
wget http://www.openss7.org/repos/tarballs/strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2
</code>

Displays:

<code>
Saving to: `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2'

100%[======================>] 3,852,374   76.8K/s   in 55s    

2009-09-25 11:15:30 (68.7 KB/s) - `strx25-0.9.2.1.tar.bz2' saved [3852374/3852374]
</code>