wget for Mac OS X Leopard
July 30th, 2008Three years ago I compiled a version of the ‘wget’ utility so that it would run under Mac OS X and uploaded it to Status-Q. It’s had an amazing number of downloads, and I felt it was probably time to update it!
So here is a shiny new wget.zip, which contains the following:
- the wget binary
- the wget.1 man page
- the default wgetrc configuration file
- A README file telling you a bit more.
The main changes from the original version are:
- it’s a universal binary
- it’s the latest version of wget (1.11.4)
- it’s compiled on 10.5.4 and may possibly not work on older versions - please let me know in the comments if it does!
Hope it’s useful! Here’s some more of my Apple-related posts, or you could always just subscribe to the blog - here’s the RSS feed !
July 30th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Most people know the simple use of wget:
wget [url]
to download whatever’s at [url]
But Jeff Veen’s post gives a nice example of just how powerful it can be…
http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000573.html
July 31st, 2008 at 8:51 am
It does not work on 10.4.11. Error message recieved is:
—
$ wget
dyld: Symbol not found: _fnmatch$UNIX2003
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
Trace/BPT trap
—
Guess I’ll have to run this over on my Leopard machine…
July 31st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Thanks for the download. (I suppose the traffic will be high today because there are all kinds of links to your site going on right now.)
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Newb alert! Everything installed OK, but I can’t seem to find a way to create an executable script to call wget commands in mac. I could do a batch script for wget in windows, but I’m blind on my new mac.
I tried to have Automator do this but no luck:
do shell script “wget htttp://thisismydesiredurl.com”
Terminal responds to manually typing in “wget htttp://thisismydesiredurl.com”, but I am in search of a way to launch the command via GUI/Finder as AppleScript or clickable file. What am I missing?
August 5th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Awesome! thanks for porting this over to mac
August 5th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Great job! thanks
August 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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August 8th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Thanks!
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Thank you for sharing this distribution of the wget code for mac os X
Regards Snoop1990
August 30th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Have the same issue with Tiger -
dyld: Symbol not found: _fnmatch$UNIX2003
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
for those of us who aren’t going to move to Leopard in the very near .. (might do just to get wget working hah!) would it be possible to provide a patch?
August 31st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Nick - a quick note - my previous binary will work fine on all versions of Mac OS X - see the link to ‘the original version’ above.
I’m afraid I can’t easily build an up-to-date version for older versions of OS X at present, but I’ll try and get my hand on an older machine, or a disk on which I can install an older version, at some point!
September 5th, 2008 at 12:28 am
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