OS X: equivalent of Linux's wget

I'm going to have to say curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -o outfile

brew install wget

Homebrew is a package manager for OSX analogous to yum, apt-get, choco, emerge, etc. Be aware that you will also need to install Xcode and the Command Line Tools. Virtually anyone who uses the command line in OSX will want to install these things anyway.

If you can't or don't want to use homebrew, you could also:

Install wget manually:

curl -# "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.17.1.tar.xz" -o "wget.tar.xz"
tar xf wget.tar.xz
cd wget-1.17.1
./configure --with-ssl=openssl -with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/ssl && make -j8 && make install

Or, use a bash alias:

function _wget() { curl "${1}" -o $(basename "${1}") ; };
alias wget='_wget'

Curl has a mode that is almost equivalent to the default wget.

curl -O <url>

This works just like

wget <url>

And, if you like, you can add this to your .bashrc:

alias wget='curl -O'

It's not 100% compatible, but it works for the most common wget usage (IMO)

1) on your mac type

nano /usr/bin/wget

2) paste the following in

#!/bin/bash
curl -L $1 -o $2

3) close then make it executable

chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget

That's it.

Use curl;

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -o index.html