command line alternatives to wget and so much better!
Most people including myself are hooked on using wget to do whatever quickies that we need to do on our servers. I use it in my scripts, crontab entries and even site mirroring and web crawling.
If you’ve used it extensively, you’ve probably started to see it’s limitations when it comes to downloading large files in a short period of time, multi-threading, and web caching and web crawling. Yes all that is possible with wget but it’s not powerful enough to stick to it.
The following is a list of alternatives that’ll blow wget away. All of the applications work on Unix/Linux, MacOS, Cygwin and probably everything else if you can get them compiled.
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