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GNU Wget

wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS.

Detected by wget | macOS, Linux, Windows |www.gnu.org

Sync it wget.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

GNU Wget in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

…

logfile = /Users/octocat/Library/Logs/wget.log

# Trust store installed by this machine's package manager

ca_certificate = /opt/homebrew/etc/openssl@3/cert.pemmachine-local

ca_directory = /opt/homebrew/etc/openssl@3/certsmachine-local

# Credentials for the internal mirrors

user = octocat

…

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

…

user_agent = Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; octocat)

# Where this machine puts downloads and logs

dir_prefix = /Users/octocat/Downloads/wgetmachine-local

logfile = /Users/octocat/Library/Logs/wget.logmachine-local

# Trust store installed by this machine's package manager

ca_certificate = /opt/homebrew/etc/openssl@3/cert.pem

…

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

passwordhttp_passwordftp_passwordproxy_password

Lifted into your secret store; the rest of the file syncs.

· ~/.netrc Never synced

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/wget.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "wget"

name = "GNU Wget"

homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/"

description = "GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS."

# wget2 is a separate program with its own ~/.wget2rc and is not this entry.

detect = ["wget"]

# wget(1), FILES: "/usr/local/etc/wgetrc — Default location of the global

# startup file. .wgetrc — User startup file." The global one is not user-level

# and is not listed; the user one is read from the home directory. On Windows

# wget looks for wget.ini beside the executable rather than in the profile, so

# there is no second spelling here.

paths = ["~/.wgetrc"]

exclude = []

# wget(1) under --no-netrc: "By default .netrc file is searched for credentials

# in case none have been passed on the command line", and the manual points at

# it for storing passwords out of the process list. The whole file is logins

# and passwords.

# ~/.wget-hsts, the HSTS database, is state wget rewrites itself, not

# configuration, so it is neither synced nor listed here.

secret = ["~/.netrc"]

# Parsed at startup by a process that then exits.

side_effect = false

# https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Wgetrc-Commands.html

# names each of these: "password = string — Specify password for both FTP and

# HTTP file retrieval", plus the protocol-specific http_password, ftp_password

# and proxy_password. Written one per line as `name = value`, so the prefix is

# the directive itself. The matching user/http_user/ftp_user/proxy_user

# directives are left out on purpose: `user` as a prefix would also swallow

# `user_agent`, which is a preference every machine should keep.

[[secret_paths]]

file = "~/.wgetrc"

match = { prefix = ["password", "http_password", "ftp_password", "proxy_password"] }

# Same page: ca_certificate ("use file as the file with the bundle of

# certificate authorities") and ca_directory both name a trust store installed

# by this machine's package manager — /etc/ssl on one distro, a Homebrew prefix

# on the next. Where the package manager puts that store is decided by the kind

# of machine, so the two hold across every box of the same OS and architecture.

[[machine_lines]]

file = "~/.wgetrc"

match = { prefix = ["ca_certificate", "ca_directory"] }

scope = "platform"

# dir_prefix is "the top of the directory tree", where downloads land, and

# logfile is where wget's own log goes; both are absolute paths into this

# machine's disk that the user chose, which is why they are a separate rule

# from the trust store above — kept so the user can rebuild this box, applied

# to no other.

[[machine_lines]]

file = "~/.wgetrc"

match = { prefix = ["dir_prefix", "logfile"] }

scope = "backup"

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/wget. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these keeps the credential file out. None of them splits ca_certificate and ca_directory for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.