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macOS Mojave, Sierra, and earlier versions come with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact, ‘curl‘ can probably get you by just fine, check man curl at the command line to see its usage.

Otherwise, let’s look at getting ‘wget‘… this can be done in 3 ways.

1 – Install as Point and Click

Download and run the package from Rudix

2 – Compile from Source

To add and install wget to your system you need to download the source files, compile the code and make an install. To compile the code you need a compiler, unfortunately, it doesn’t come with macOS by default you need to install the free Xcode suite from Apple which includes the GCC compiler. This process also works exactly the same in previous macOS and OSX versions.

Get Xcode

Wget On Mac

Get the latest via Xcode via iTunes.

Next you need to install the Xcode command line tools, easiest way to do so by running in the Terminal:

Using curl to get wget

Get the latest wget source code from the ftp repository, or using curl from the command line:

Extract it and move into it

Configure and Install it

an error may occur on SSL…

wget needs to have some type of SSL support GNUTLS is most probably not available on your OS X system – if so use OpenSSL in the configure as an alternative use so re-run the configure with an SSL flag:

That’s it done, wget will be installed in:

Clean Up

Remove the source code and compressed file:

Test wget

Everything should work out fine – if you need to install more Unix style tools it will be faster and better to install a Package Manager for OSX like Homebrew – it makes installing and maintaining these applications so easy,

3 – Install from HomeBrew

The wget command is used to download files from the web and is one of the most useful commands around. But while it comes included with most distributions of Linux, it is not built into Mac OS X by default. Therefore, let’s look at installing wget.To get started, install the developer tools for Mac OS X so that you can get a working copy of a compiler (gcc). Once the developer tools have been installed, you’ll want to download the latest version of wget from gnu. To do so, either download it manually from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget or use the ftp command to do so for you:

ftp ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz

Next, extract the tar file using the tar command:

tar -xvzf wget-latest.tar.gz

You will then have a directory called wget- followed by the version of wget you just downloaded (currently 1.12). Let’s cd into that directory:

cd wget-1.12

Then run the configure script:

./configure

Then make the installer:

make

Then run the installer (with elevated privileges:

make install

You will then have the wget command located in /usr/local/bin/wget. To use it, simply use wget, followed by the path to the file you’d like to download using the –tries option:

wget –tries=10 https://krypted.com//scripts/wget.sh

Wget Command Not Found Mac Os

There are a lot of options for wget, but some that I use more than others include –user= and –password=, which allows you to authenticate to a host by specifying a username and a password (respectively of course) and –limit-rate, which funny enough, let’s you throttle the speeds of transfers so as not to saturate your bandwidth. I also frequently need to use the -r operator, which allows for recursive downloads and the -o operator which outputs to a log file. Overall wget is one of the most useful commands around, and hopefully after reading this you’ll download it and get used to using it (if you weren’t already).