To install the wget
utility on a FreeBSD system, you can use the pkg
command.
wget
is not installed by default on a FreeBSD system, but it is available in the FreeBSD package repository.
To install wget
, you can use the following command:
pkg install wget
This will install the wget
utility on the system.
You can find more information about the pkg
command and its options in the pkg
documentation or by running the pkg help
command.
Alternatively, you can use the portmaster
or portupgrade
utility to install wget
from the FreeBSD ports collection.
For example, to install wget
with portmaster
, you can use the following command:
portmaster net/wget
This will install wget
from the FreeBSD ports collection with portmaster
.
You can find more information about the portmaster
and portupgrade
utilities in the FreeBSD documentation or by searching online.
Once wget
is installed, you can use it to download files from the internet.
For example, to download the file http://example.com/myfile.txt
using wget
, you can use the following command:
wget http://example.com/myfile.txt
This will download the file myfile.txt
from the website http://example.com/
and save it in the current directory.
You can find more information about the wget
command and its options in the wget
documentation or by running the wget --help
command.