How to Download Multiple Files In Ubuntu From Terminal

If you want to look more like geeky when using Ubuntu then instead of using a FTP GUI app, use the command line to download multiple files. Ubuntu Linux supports Wget which is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.


To download a single file from the command line then you type

wget URL

Where URL is equal to the exact url of the file to download. For example.

wget http://www.fryan0911.com/test.dat

Using the command above for multiple files is time consuming so instead you can use a temporary text file to put the multiple URLs of the files you want to download. Here's how.

1. Create a text file from the command line by typing.

gedit multidownload

2. On the gedit editor, enter all URL of the files you want to download. One URL each line.
3. Now use the filename as the wget parameter.

wget –i multidownload

Your multiple downloads should now start!

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