We Recommend

bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users
bash Cookbook teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell -- the bash shell -- and cygwin or other popular Unix emulation packages.


Posted By

noah on 05/22/07


Tagged

Bash password download linux batch wget cygwin authentication automation agents


Versions (?)


Who likes this?

5 people have marked this snippet as a favorite

basicmagic
willcodeforfood
sbbath
copyleft
alexxx


wget with username and password


Published in: Bash 


This is how to connect to a secure site with wget. The Cygwin manpage is quite confusing on this issue.

  1. wget http://MYUSERNAME:MYPASSWORD@somesite.org/

Report this snippet 

You need to login to post a comment.