While all three of these Linux commands can be used to download files, if you want to know my preference, it's wget all the way (unless I need to add a layer of security, at which point I use scp).

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

Transferring Files With SSH in Ubuntu. Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a ...

The pscp command also has the same options as scp. One of the more useful of these is the recursive option that allows you to copy a group of files with one command. You can also use wildcards.

When I want to transfer files between computers on the same network, most of the time, I use the scp command. But when I want something a bit simpler to use, I turn to a very handy command-line ...