Using wget, you can copy the contents of a whole website to your hard disk. This is done by executing the wget command with the ‘-r’ option. the ‘-r’ option is, as stated in the wget man page, a “Recursive web-suck”, in other words, it mirrors the URL specified at execution time. Usage: wget -r [URL] For more information about wget, refer to its man page.

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