What Pete and Jake said... but... I don't know why they did not also 
mention "curl".

It's funny how people (me) get set in their ways. I know that wget is 
well established, but I simply prefer 'curl'.

curl -O http://example.com/foo.iso


See this page:
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html

Just a heads up that, as usual, there is more than one way to do things....

Rolf

pete@petertodd.ca wrote:
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> I do that all the time myself.
>
> Another program to look up with nohup, short for no hangup. For instance
> to get some really big iso file:
>
> wget http://example.com/foo.iso
>
> Works fine, but when you close that telnet, wget recieves the "hangup"
> signal and quits.
>
> nohup wget http://example.com/foo.iso > foo.iso.log &
>
> With nohup the nohup "wrapper" traps any hangup signal, so the program
> will run even without a terminal. The & detaches the command from the
> terminal so you can do other things. Output is then logged to
> foo.iso.log
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> Run tail -f foo.iso.log, the -f stands for follow, and you can even see
> a constantly updating record of what wget is doing.
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