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In the vast toolbox of the Linux command line, wget stands out as a versatile and robust tool for downloading files from the web. It's cherished among system administrators, developers, and even casual users for its simplicity and powerful capabilities, including downloading files from FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols, as well as recursively downloading websites. In this blog, we'll dive into what wget is, how to install it across various Linux distributions, and share some practical examples to get you started. wget is a non-interactive network downloader which supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols and can handle the retrieval of large files and recursive downloads efficiently.