https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/tags/wget/ Recent content in Wget on Chatomics Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2018 Ming 'Tommy' Tang Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:09:00 -0800 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/using-wget-to-download-specific-files-from-ftp-but-avoiding-the-directory/ Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:09:00 -0800 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/using-wget-to-download-specific-files-from-ftp-but-avoiding-the-directory/ I want to download some files from a ftp site, and I only want to download some files with names matching a pattern. How can I do it? Use wget ! It is a very versatile command and I just got to know several tricks. When there are many levels of folder, you want to search down to all the folders: -r --recursive Turn on recursive retrieving. -l depth --level=depth Specify recursion maximum depth level depth.